Are there records of any American slave owner treat their slave well?

Question

When the slave trade was at its peak in America were there any notable owners who treated their slave with far more dignity and respect than was typical at the time? I understand that a lot of their conditions were determined by their role, so for this example i am asking about the ones forced to work in agriculture and other manual labour jobs.

Answer 1

This depends very greatly on how you're describing "treating them well." There are slaves, for example, who worked inside their owners' houses rather than in the fields. On the other hand, house slaves were still treated as property, not human beings, so whether this counts as them being "treated well" is highly debatable, at best.