Family split up and slavery In the past the slaves in the American South where treated unfairly. The family was split up and got treated unfairly. The family was split up in the American South. First, Harriet Tubman’s family was sold to a faraway plantation by her owner and Tubman was scared that her family would be further separated. In the text it shows that tubman didn’t want her family to be Second, Harriet tubman was hit five times before breakfast and carried the scars for her rest of her life and she was beaten and mistreated for the work that she gave and her most severe injury occurred when she was a teenager. In the text it’s showing what they had done to her for the work that she gave and how slaves were treated unfairly. Third,
