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In America’s history, it is stained with the history of slavery. At the time, slavery was thought to be ok and just, but it isn’t. Having another human being as a piece of property and treating the like oxen. They would be severely punished if they tried to escape from their owners. They would be whipped, bound to a pole, starved, or even hung. There were people that thought that it wasn’t okay to have someone as property and treat them like that. Humans are supposed to be rulers of themselves and be independent. It is human nature to run away from someone who basically kidnapped you from your home and put you to work. Over the period of slavery more and more people began to disagree with slavery. Thus came the anti-slavery movement. This caused the whole nation to become divided into two parts. The North and The South completely divided on their beliefs. The North was against slavery, and the South was for slavery. This pushed the North and South to always be arguing about if slavery should be allowed everywhere. With the North being free many slaves would run away to the …show more content…
They created a movement to end slavery. This spread across the Atlantic Ocean a also affected the Western Europeans and in the end brought an end to slavery and slave trade. There were many important American abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, William Wells Brown. William Lloyd Garrison was a journalist, a suffragist, and a social reformer. He wrote in his books explaining about how cruel the slaves were being treated. This angered many slave owners and pulled the south and the north apart further. The slaves had a few jobs to do around the plantations, such as Planters, or Field Hands. Planter and field hands worked the land and were out in the fields from sunrise to sunset. Then once they came back, they would come back to rotting wooden shacks and them having to sleep on the