mekai.slavery

SLAVERY

Slavery is a system that people are treated as property. They can be bought, sold, and are forced work. Most of the slaves came from Africa. The slaves worked in the fields. They plowed, planted, and chopped cotton.The slaves also took care of the vegetable gardens and grains. Some slaves work in the home taking care of the children and serving the family. Slaves are also responsible for taking care of the plantation owner's wife if she became sick. A few other things that slaves did was take care of farm animals and butcher animals. They also chopped wood and carried water. Slaves were treated as property instead of people. The slaves were harshly punished if they did not follow the rules. Some slaves were killed if they did not abide by their masters' wishes. The slaves got out of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment abolishes and prohibits slavery and forced bondage, except as criminal punishment. Slavery was a cause of the Civil War because the North wanted to end slavery but the South wanted to keep it. The South believed that ending slavery would ruin the economy. Some southerns thought black people were inferior to white people. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation stated that all people that were held as slaves within the rebellious states should be free.

By: Mekai Brown

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