'Slavery in the 19th Century'

'Chained up and bea disco biscuit, oblige to civilize long hours, provide meager amounts of food, and forced to sleep on the ground. These animal- corresponding(p) vivification conditions were the realities of about buckle downs in the southern. These the great unwashed were thought to be lesser humans, and they were interact as such. In his book 12 Years a Slave, Northup Northup gives readers a coup doeil into the workingss of the striver musical arrangement including the hard worker trade, living and working conditions, views of buckle downs and their owners, and the slaves methods of resistance.\nThe outlawing of the African slave trade in 1808 led to the come of the domestic slave-trading ne 2rk. Slaves became more than valuable, and the trade of them became very(prenominal) profitable. Slaves were caged up like animals and paraded in former of potential buyers. Slaves were well inspected by buyers and were asked what jobs they could do. Solomon give tongue t o that scars upon a slaves prickle were considered evidence of a rebellious or unruly spirit, and tolerate his sale (Northup, 53). The South thrived during this antebellum period. at any rate the point of forcing pack to work against their will, the nearly despicable vista of the domestic slave trade system was the breaking up of families. Only two states, Louisiana and Alabama, had laws against the musical interval of children younger than ten from his or her mother. virtually to one gazillion blacks were traded during the antebellum period, for the most part during the 1830s. In his novel, Northup describes how he was tricked and then kidnapped and exchange into slavery. Northup was sold to a man named William crossing. Northup was very fond of traverse and stated there was never a more kind, noble, candid, Christian man than William Ford (Northup, 62). Northups run into for his owner did not change the fact that he was stolen forth from his family without their kn owledge, and he would do anything to get natural covering to them. \nFor the most part, the living and working conditions for slaves were evenhandedly much the same fr...'