Slavery in the 19th Century

Chained up and beaten, laboured to work broad hours, fed meager amounts of food, and forced to sleep on the ground. These animal- alike sustentation conditions were the realities of some slaves in the sulphur. These people were thought to be lesser hu patchs, and they were treated as such. In his book 12 geezerhood a Slave, Northup Northup gives readers a glance into the working(a)s of the slave dodging including the slave craftiness, living and working conditions, views of slaves and their owners, and the slaves methods of resistance.\nThe outlawing of the African slave peck in 1808 led to the turn off of the house servant slave-trading network. Slaves became more valuable, and the trade of them became very profitable. Slaves were caged up like animals and paraded in front of dominance buyers. Slaves were thoroughly inspected by buyers and were asked what jobs they could do. Solomon express that scars upon a slaves back were considered evidence of a rebellious or reb ellious spirit, and hurt his sale (Northup, 53). The South thrived during this antebellum period. Besides the item of forcing people to work against their will, the nearly despicable aspect of the domestic slave trade strategy was the breaking up of families. moreover two states, Louisiana and Alabama, had laws against the judicial separation of children younger than ten from his or her mother. Close to one one thousand thousand blacks were traded during the antebellum period, mostly during the 1830s. In his novel, Northup describes how he was tricked and then kidnapped and sell into slavery. Northup was sold to a man named William crossing. Northup was actually fond of Ford and stated there was never a more kind, noble, candid, Christian man than William Ford (Northup, 62). Northups regard for his owner did not change the fact that he was stolen away from his family without their knowledge, and he would do anything to get back to them.\nFor the most part, the living and workin g conditions for slaves were sensibly much the same fr...