Have you ever read or heard someone talking how bad working in the South for African Americans was a while back? The life of slaves was tough they had to go through a lot of things, hey had to try to survive with their whole families, and they had to resist a lot of things as well.
The life of a slave was very hard. If I would have been alive then I don't know what I would do because they had no respect for the colored people or for their families. "American law in the early 1800s did not protect enslaved families." According to this quote, they had no laws to help them or their families around and that helped keep them alive. "At any time, a husband or wife could be sold to a different owner, or a slaveholder’s death could lead to the breakup of an enslaved family." They had to live with the threat of being sold at any time, or they had to live knowing that they could die/get killed. If either one parent or both parents were sold or killed, they would have to go with their close aunt or uncle to get raised. The used Christianity as a form of hope and …show more content…
In 1830-1860's they had very few legal rights. There was one thing that made it especially hard for them to live at that time. Those were called the slave codes, they were laws in the South that controlled the slaves (page 434). They were used to help prevent slave rebellions, they made it a crime to teach them to read or write because they thought that if they didn't know that they would not rebel. A lot of them tried/ ran away to the free states some did succeed two of them were Fredrick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Most of the runaway slaves were caught and they took them back to their owners. "Occasionally resistance took more active forms, such as setting fire to a plantation building or breaking tools." (page 437) Those are some ways that they resisted, they also worked slowly or pretended to be ill to resist as
The life of a slave was very hard. If I would have been alive then I don't know what I would do because they had no respect for the colored people or for their families. "American law in the early 1800s did not protect enslaved families." According to this quote, they had no laws to help them or their families around and that helped keep them alive. "At any time, a husband or wife could be sold to a different owner, or a slaveholder’s death could lead to the breakup of an enslaved family." They had to live with the threat of being sold at any time, or they had to live knowing that they could die/get killed. If either one parent or both parents were sold or killed, they would have to go with their close aunt or uncle to get raised. The used Christianity as a form of hope and …show more content…
In 1830-1860's they had very few legal rights. There was one thing that made it especially hard for them to live at that time. Those were called the slave codes, they were laws in the South that controlled the slaves (page 434). They were used to help prevent slave rebellions, they made it a crime to teach them to read or write because they thought that if they didn't know that they would not rebel. A lot of them tried/ ran away to the free states some did succeed two of them were Fredrick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Most of the runaway slaves were caught and they took them back to their owners. "Occasionally resistance took more active forms, such as setting fire to a plantation building or breaking tools." (page 437) Those are some ways that they resisted, they also worked slowly or pretended to be ill to resist as