Cause And Effect Of The Underground Railroad

The cause of the Underground Railroad was the slaves arrived in 1619, a ship docked in Jamestown, Virginia. The ship carried away 20 people had been kidnapped from their homes in west Africa. At an auction, a large group of newly arrived black men and women and children were put on display. They pried open their mouths to check their teeth. They pinched their muscles to make sure they were strong. No one cared about how slaves felt. They weren't considered human beings. There were two ways for the captain to load their ships with slaves: loose packing and tight packing. Slaves were often chained ankle to wrist. There were no bathrooms. Slaves used buckets instead slaves came down with like flu and smallpox. Each slave was sold person who has the most money. Henry fingered the more slaves that can fit in the ship the more money he would make in America. They thought if slaves died so what? By 1860, there were nearly four million slaves in the United States in America. Virginia other states in the south depend on free labor of slaves to work in fields on farms called plantation.

Even a hundred of years later, African Americans weren’t seen equal and have the same whites. African Americans demanded to be treated the same. It guaranteed African Americans rights to vote. Blacks were not allowed were not allowed to to buy houses or share with whites. They were not allowed to go to whites schools,eat in whites restaurants, stay in white hotels, or go to white laundromats. Signs outside said, FOR WHITES ONLY. It was especially true in the south,were the two races lived separately. Blacks soon found that being free did not mean that they were treated the same way the whites were. At the end of Civil War, in 1865, slavery was abolished in the United