Slave masters were people who owned slaves and controlled their slaves live's.
According to James Henley Thornwell, when slaves obeyed their masters they became free.James Henley Thornwell was an American Presbyterian pastor and professor . For him, slaves were part of the Christian master’s “household,” which entailed great responsibilities to provide for the slaves’ physical, educational, and spiritual needs.
They descended from French ppl, French settlers
Did not want them to suffer in the poor conditions of English prisons.
On December 5 or 6 1492 a fateful wind led Christopher Columbus to the island of Haiti that he renamed Española
thinking that it looked like Spain. Guacanagaric, the cacique of the Marien in the northern part of the island, warmly welcomed
Columbus. He thought the Taino looked coward and could easily be defeated and enslaved:
"They...brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things... They would make fine servants... With fifty
men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.
