Abraham Lincoln once said, "If Slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. Slave owners would keep these poor innocent Black human beings, making them work in the hot humid sun all day long with out much food or water at all. Some slaves were .
even whipped like animals, and hardly ever fed anything. If this .
were to be you in this situation wouldn't you like a way out of this .
cruel treatment into a land where you can be free and live like .
normal people. Lets go back in history and see how this whole .
thing acuatlly led up to to the Underground Railroad.
There have been slaves through most of human history. Their lives have varied from place to place and time to time, but in general a slave was someone who was "owned" by somebody else. They were treated as though they were a car, being bought and sold.
Slavery was very different in early history, often people became slaves when their nation lost a war. An example of what sort of jobs they had to do were, building temples and pyramids, or digging silver and gold mines. Since there was not much machinery back then, these tasks were very brutal and hard on these poor people. The usual types of people to do this were Men, Women, and children in neighboring lands captured by rulers of other lands.
As ancient empires like those of Greece and Rome expanded, seizing control of one land after another, many of the conquered people were sold in slave markets. Having a household of slaves in Greek times to every wish they wanted was not only convenient, but it also showed how important and fasinonable the family is. Slaves also could be set free by their owners, if they saved enough money to buy them ownselves and become free. In early times, slaves were usually recognized as human beings like the owners, just less fortunate.
In the 1400's a prince named, Henry sent navigators out to look for new routes for sailing. While they were making their way to Africa they picked up Gold and Slaves.
Slavery Slavery was a cruel thing that started very early in the United States. It was a time that brought slaves from Africa to Southern US, to work for their masters on plantations or fields. ... The first person ever to escape through the Underground Railroad was Tice Davis. ... Slaves were brought from plantations singly or in groups. ... Slavery was finally ended in 1865. ...
These people from Africa were mistreated very badly right from the start both mentally and physically. ... Second of all, they had no where to escape to. ... Some white people would actually help some slaves escape. ... One slave that had escaped was Fredrick Douglas. ... Hopefully people will learn from history, and immoral actions or events like slavery will not take place again....
Legitimate political authority comes only from a social contract agreed upon by all citizens for their mutual preservation. ... "Nothing can be more certain than that every man born in slavery is born for slavery." ... Those brought into slavery at an early age or born into slavery have never known any other lifestyles, so essentially they don't know what they"re missing. "Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them." As the preceding quote declares, slaves lose the desire to escape or to be free and eventually they begin to love their servitude. ...
From this group, few people stood out that were responsible for closing this dark chapter of history. ... From then on, Brown became even more preoccupied with abolishing slavery. ... Garrison's belief in anticlericalism, perfectionism, radical pacifism, and women's right drove away important individuals from the American Anti-Slavery Society. ... Garrison had many followers, and most were from the northern states. ... Born to slave parents, she escaped to freedom in 1849. ...
"The Evils of Slavery" "Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. ... "(1) These are profound words from a man who lived through one of the darkest and most embarrassing periods in American History. ... Fredrick Douglass escaped this horrible life and went on to become one of the most well known abolitionists in history. ... And that is what slavery is; pure evil. ... Hopkins used to beat three or four slaves every Monday morning to "alarm their fears, and strike terror into those who escaped...
Among Vesey's co-conspirators was Gullah Jack Pritchard, an African priest from Mozambique. ... Kansas was a territory divided over the issue of slavery. ... Brown and his sons escaped. ... First, the men needed to capture the weapons and escape before word reached Washington. ... Leeman, tried to escape by swimming across the Potomac River, but was shot and killed. ...
In this case, the people who lived in the South known as the Confederate states supported slavery, and the people who lived in the North, known as the Union states opposed slavery. ... These two men fought hard for black people's freedom, and Douglass even risked his life to escape from being a slave. ... Both of coarse knew a lot about slavery, but especially Douglass since he was a former slave. ... When he was twenty years old in 1838, Frederick escaped from slavery to New York. ... When he was home one Sunday when she and the children got home from church, him and some friends w...
Some are just simply born into slavery. ... Slavery can take away something from people that they may never gat back in their entire lives. ... Siri, a girl from Thailand, was sold into sex slavery by her parents when she was only 14 years old. ... Slaves can be set free when their debts have been paid off, if they escape, if anti-slave laws are created, or if they are rescued. ... Francis Bok from Sudan tried to escape from his master three times before he finally made it. ...
