hailey.civilwar.slavery

=Hailey's Slavery Project=

Slavery is when a person owns another person. Slavery started in the 1600s. It all started when people were getting tired of doing a lot of work and they started to buy people and so many people began doing it they just gave it a name. I'm so glad we don't have slavery anymore because if we still had it now it would have become even more of a problem. If someone was born from a mother who was a slave, then they would be a slave from that day forward (unless they were freed). The underground railroad was a way to run away from slavery. Harriet Tubman was a slave but she ran away from her owner. She is famus because she came back to free other slaves and risked her free life. Some children who were born to slave parents, even had to start working when they learned to walk!!! Slaves were treated like they were nothing back then. Some slaves owners gave them barely enough water no food and a tiny little living space. Others were nice to them they gave them food,water and, treated them almost like family. The most sad part some slaves had to be taken away from there family and never see them again. That would have been really sad imagine if that was you being taken away from your family and maybe even never see them again!!! I wouldn't want to be the person who took you away from your family. But the owners just didn't have a brain. They made the slaves work all day and you had to do everything you say. And they didn't even pay you!!!!!!!!! People back then were just crazy to allow slavery. Today we do not have slaves because people finally found out it was wrong. And I'm glad they finally found that out.