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How Were Slaves Treated Between 1830 And 1860

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Slaves had a tough life they suffer a lot and misjudge for many years they were treated miserable for a long time they had an exhausting time. The slaves faced danger, but they had their ways to get over how they were treated. The life for the slaves were really for them difficult because they work so hard and they didn’t even get payed. They tried to defeat the wage upon them but some of them found their way.

Mostly all enslaved people they couldn’t be free they were basically born for that reason some of them didn’t even had hope because they were treated so bad. They denied their freedom which they were still slaved and what we called today is "human rights" but they didn’t have that, and they didn’t accept it. The American …show more content…

They all worked induvial, they did not have no help for no one. The enslaved didn’t really had a lot of rights they had few rights. Life for the enslaved became way more tough for them in the 1830and 1860 because the laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people became more severe. A code was one crime to the enslaved people because it teaches enslaved people to read or write but also the southern s believed a slave who did not know how to read and write was less likely to rebel. There was a popular religious leader among the slaves, her name was Nat Turner. The led a group of followers on a brief, violent rampage in Southhampton County, Virginia. There were also some rebellions that were armed but they were rare for them. There were some African American who wanted to leave the place because they wanted to have freedom. But there was an important person was Harriet Tubman she was a leader who were born into slavery, gained their freedom when they fled to the North. She let some slaved people free. Not every slave was able to leave but there were many slaves that succeeded in running away escaped from the Upper South the Underground Railroad network of “safe houses” (Chapter 9 page 437). But some did leave but they were caught, and they went back to their

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