Question

Why did plantation owners of Saint Domingue use cruel and ruthless methods of treatment toward enslaved persons?

to push the enslaved to produce more crops
to render the enslaved powerless as to not revolt
to provoke fear in the enslaved to repay their cost
to harden the enslaved and ready them for auction

Answer 1

ok so which do you know is wrong

Answer 2

Well we know that the plantation owners of Saint Domingue wanted to keep the enslaved persons as helpless as possible.

Answer 3

We also know that freed enslaved persons would rather die than go back to being enslaved.