Question

1. identifying Give two examples from Weld's writing of how cattle were treated better than enslaved people.

Answer 1

Explanation:

 As a general rule, slaves who were incorporated into the revolutionary forces or participated in wars, were made to open trenches, obstruct roads, knocking down trees and move them along with stones to prevent the enemy from passing through the roads. They built primitive fortifications and barricades, they also worked in the kitchens chopping wood and in other secondary works.

In addition, the testimonies about the slaves in the liberating ranks always place them in auxiliary occupations such as making trenches, they are never mentioned with firearms, and as a general rule they were watched. A Spaniard who had joined the insurgents in the Seville camp says that there were: “about thirty black men who took to make trenches

Testimonies like these are usual with respect to slaves. For the Mambises the status of slaves of these men placed it on a lower scale than that of the free blacks and mulattos. The social and moral degeneration, caused by slavery, created doubts among the liberators regarding the use of these men in tasks of trust.