ashley.civilwar.slavery

=Slavery= Slavery is a system in which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. In the majority of the time they are working, they held against their will, and once they are purchased they can not leave until their owner lets them free or until they escape. They lived in very uncomfortable living spaces. There were even slave children, even when they were babies people could buy babies and without the parents opinion, have they child taken away from their parents and be raised by their owner. They were often used in the South because that's where all most all of the crops came from, and the plantation owners did not want to work so they bought slaves to make them do it instead of the plantation owners lazy self. Slave owners didn't have to pay the slaves, and were not required to feed them ... and if they didn't finish their work they would not be allowed to eat anything.

Did you know... that slaves made up 3 quarters of the population in the 19th century? But right now slavery is illegal in every state, but yet there roughly 27 million slaves worldwide, some people are saying that slavery will be eradicated by 2042. For us in the U.S. we mostly rely on mechanical labor to do things for us at factories, instead of people.

Slaves came from mostly anywhere around the U.S. People purchased them and sometimes they were put in a medium size boat and had to sail to the buyer if they bought a big amount of slaves. For the most part they worked in the south.

They worked on the farm for the most part, they readied the dirt for planting crops, they had to sometimes be the owners servant and do anything the owner ordered. When they had the slaves with the very wealthy families, had very big living spaces but had servants live in places like the basement and outside. But the owners wanted potable bathrooms in their rooms... So they made one... a pot... that slaves had to clean out every day! And yet we think our lives are hard!

But if they were lucky, they could escape... through the Under Ground Railroad... That is where slaves go to escape, there are little stairs to go into certain peoples houses... the people would hide the slaves, feed them, and when the slave owner asks the person who owns the house if they know where they are and they say I don't know.