Which describes a common experience for enslaved families?
Children usually were set free even if their parents remained enslaved.
Slaveholders tried their best to keep married couples together.
Slaveholders tried their best to keep parents and children together.
Family members often were sold separately and split up from one another

Question

Which describes a common experience for enslaved families?
Children usually were set free even if their parents remained enslaved.
Slaveholders tried their best to keep married couples together.
Slaveholders tried their best to keep parents and children together.
Family members often were sold separately and split up from one another

wwhitlock · Answer

Children of slaves had the same status as their mothers. If your mom is a slave, you are a slave. Biological mothers and fathers were sent to another of the master's properties and all children were raised by a grandmother or older couple that were to old to work in the fields.