What does the fact that plantation owners would sometimes "brand" their slaves show about the view of the Africans?

Explanation:

Basically, Africans were property. A white OWNED him, and he wasn't anyone else's to have. The view on Africans was that they meant nothing except to be sure that their labor was only given to them.

500 books can be produced by one man and a printing press within 5 months, while a copyist can only produce one in the same amount of time

pan-africanism or pan-africanism is a political, philosophical, cultural and social movement that promotes african twinning, the defense of the rights of african people and the unity of africa under a single sovereign state, for all africans, both africa as of the african diasporas.