Slavery Equal Rights

Slavery in the southern states was a primary thing in the south due to its plantations and labor. Slavery was to be sought for every black individual women, men, and children, which later became a huge controversial throughout the years. The lives of the slaves were controlled by rules, laws, and includes rights. Many slaves feared masters separating the slaves’ families. Rights for black slaves didn’t exist at one point, such as not being able to testify against whites in court, couldn’t leave the plantations without permission, and marriage. Marriage was no legal right for any slave only way to be able to marry was by the approval of their master. Salves couldn’t travel on their own nor with any other former slave without any written consent.
Slaves gained rights and became more adapted with the world of economics and law. As to former slaves, they searched for the right to be free, have equal rights, and have a life of their own other than be someone’s’ “property”. Although former slaves’ good behavior was granted with liberation and some equal rights, the equal rights would be ignored at point of time by several other people that were against the liberation and equal rights for slaves. Although former slaves gained the liberty, there was other slaves called, fugitive slaves also known as the runaway slaves. These salves were the ones who would leave their masters and travel to places, mostly where slavery was banned, without written consent from the slaves. Fugitive slaves stand alone in this one, they get no help from no master nor anyone by disobeying the regulations. They get hunted down, shoot at, killed, and when caught they get arrested. Some slaves when returned to their masters, they get horrible acts such as getting whipped and branding. Although former and fugitive slaves have their differences, later former slaves helped fugitive salves escape the southern to a safe place by using a route called the underground