Advantages And Disadvantages Of Rural Slavery

Around three fourths of the southern population owned slaves, which meant that they also owned ninety percent of wealth. Slavery was a dominant force in the economy. The white slave owners saw themselves as benevolent patriarchs. The owners would take care of the slaves, as well as punish them for any reason possible. Different factors affected how all slaves were treated. These factors included if the slaves were rural or urban, size of the plantation, age, personality of the master, type of crops, difficulty of work, and the location in the south. The experiences of rural and urban slaves differed because there were many advantages as well as disadvantages of living in rural and urban areas. The slaves in the rural area had a few advantages.