How Were Slaves Treated In The 1800's

During the 1800’s, one of America’s biggest issues was slavery. Most people didn’t have a problem with it and agreed with it, but there was also groups called abolitionists, that greatly disliked slavery and devoted their lives to try to put an end to it. Slaves were denied basic human rights that people take for granted everyday, and were treated unfairly.

Rights that I believe everyone should be able to have were denied to slaves. Some of these rights include: the ability to have a legal marriage, own property, eat the fruit from the crops they were raising, and they didn’t have much of a say in whether or not their family would stay together or not. The main reasons why a slave family would break up were death, usually caused by over exhaustion from working so hard and from severe beatings from their master, and because of the master’s choice. Slaves were treated as property by their masters and other white non-abolitionists. Although there was abolitionists, there wasn’t many and if they were to get caught, the punishment often resulted in death.
In their twisted minds, the slaves weren’t human. They were just property such as livestock, and farm animals. Not only were they denied such basic human rights, but they were often regularly beaten with a whip and tortured in very cruel ways. The slaveholders would use the whip to destroy the slave’s manhood, ensure good behavior, and they would replace wages with whippings. According to white non-abolitionists, slaves were destined by god to work for white men simply because of the color of their skin and their “slave-like