Summarize: The brutality and inhumane treatment Enslaved Africans faced.

Treatment of slaves varied, but the laws in slaveholding states left enslaved people without defense or recourse in any case.  Punishment was often meted out in response to disobedience or perceived infractions, but sometimes abuse was carried out simply to reassert the dominance of the master or overseer.  Slaveholders whipped, shackled, hanged, beat, burned, mutilated, branded, and imprisoned slaves.

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