Northern Slavery Vs Southern Slavery

The existence of slavery lasted during the time of the colonies and continued when the colonies became the United States of America as a whole. Given that slavery was spread out across multiple colonies and states in the United States, it is safe to assume there was a great similarity and difference in slavery between the northern and southern regions. Slaves were treated as property, though their owners may have been more abusive in the South due to their needs for a higher quantity of workers to grow crops while other slaves in the North were more taken care of. They were used in different ways by owners to be profitable within the economy. Slaves shared similar or vastly different cultures from other slaves, sometimes depending on their
Violence in the South was more common than in the North since slavery was more heavily used in the South. Slaves in the South received little to no freedom in what they could do throughout their entire lives. The only exception was if a slave was set free by their master or escaped. Slavery in the south was soverned by the slave codes, which were a combination of customs, rules, and laws. "Slaves could not travel without a written pass. They were forbidden to learn how to read and write. They could be searched at any time. They could not buy or sell things without a permit. They could not own livestock. They were subject to a curfew every night" (“Slavery in the American South”). This quote explains how limited the slaves were as to what they could have done in their
One of these people that rebelled was David Walker. David Walker, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1796 or 1797 was an abolitionist. He was a free man but he did not like what he witnessed with slaves while in his youth. One time, he witnessed a son who was forced to whip his own mother until she died. He decided to influence slaves of the South to rebel with his own writings. In September of 1829, Walker published his Appeal which was targeted to the slaves in the South. The slaves found his writing "inspiring and instilled a sense of pride and hope" (“David Walker”). The slave masters, however, were upset so they made laws that would not allow blacks to read and banned antislavery literature to be distributed. The southern slave owners offered a reward for the death of David Walker due to his writings. Walker knew that publishing and distributing this writing would put his own life at risk but he was willing to do it anyways in hopes that he would inspire many slaves to fight for freedom ("David