How did eighteenth-century slaves in the southern colonies express the importance of kinship in their slave communities?

By adopting newly arrived Africans into their established families as fictive kin

Explanation: The Slavery that took place in the eighteenth century in the southern colonies was very devastating, the treatment of the people was very dehumanizing, slaves were physically abused, with the support of the government. The slaves worked under very harsh conditions in large plantations, usually controlled by overseers working for absentee slaveholders. Some slaveholders worked with their slaves and sometimes treated them more properly. The already existing slaves who have established themselves, adopted new slaves and related with them as fictive kins.