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of them actually held slaves while in   never saw their family again. All   either tortured to death, or sent
       office. ?Thomas Jefferson? despite   slaves hoped for a reunion with       back to their plantation where they
       once calling slavery an                                       their        were tortured with more work.
       ?assemblage of                                                family,      Slaves that did escape and were not
       horrors?? owned                                               but knew     caught, were free until someone
       around 175                                                    it was not   found them and turned them in.
       servants.?(Andrews).                                          gonna        Slaves that escaped for good, were
       This was a shock to                                           happen.      not common at all, and those
       many people because                                           Some         people were very lucky.
       Jefferson seemed like                                         slave              Slavery was one of the worst
       a man that would                                              families     things in American history. It was
       never own slaves, based on his own   were lucky enough to get to stay      cruel, evil, and just overall a very bad
       words. Jefferson wrote a law that did   together though. Imagine if you just   situation for everyone involved.
       not permit him to free his slaves, so   got thrown on a block like a wild
       upon his death he had not freed his   animal and auctioned off to people
       slaves. ?Grant would later sum up    that you didn?t know. The only thing
       his evolving views on slavery in     you knew was that you were about
       1878, when he was quoted as saying   to get tortured and put through
       that it was ?a stain to the Union? that   severe misery. Once slaves were
       people had once been ?bought and     auctioned off and purchased, they
       sold like cattle.?? (Andrews). Ulysses   were of totally property to the
       S. Grant only owned one slave and    person that bought them. Slaves
       let him free right before the Civil   had no right to education, health
 Body text  War. This was a big deal, because it   care, or religious instruction. They
 The  Amer i can  The Gruesome Truth of   showed people that Grant was a   could be beaten any way their


 Slavery in America  ?kind? person in some people?s eyes   master saw fit. This was terrible
 Hor r or   St or y  BY  KYLI E   White House or still owning them   type of people were not treated like
                                            because it really showed that these
       by not bringing a slave into the

 HERALD  while serving. There were many     normal American citizens. At the
       people that owned slaves that we
                                            time women were not exactly
       would not have expected or thought   treated like normal American
 Work, work and more work. Beaten,   your shoes. That?s 246 years of hard   nation?s history and it was very
       that it was possible to own slaves.   citizens either but they did have
 bruised and hammered. That?s the   labor and countless hours without   important. Slavery helped build our   There have been many enjoyable,
 life of and African American slave in   sleep. Even today, African Americans   history, but it was also so terrible for   This really taught people the lesson   some rights opposed to African   intelligent, and fascinating books
       that you can?t judge a book by it?s   Americans who had no rights at all.
 America. There were so many people   are not always treated the same.   all the people that died, or were   about slavery. A really good one is
       cover, because if you do you might         Slaves sometimes did try to
 that believed that slavery was the   Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks,   tortured. We can never fully take back   ?The Underground Railroad? by
 right decision that they went and   and Susan B. Anthony all fought for   what we did to those people but we   be in for a surprise with the   escape and run away from their   Colson Whitehead. You travel on a
       contents of its character.           owners. Slave life was terrible, the
 started a whole Civil War about it.   African American Rights. You can too!   can start by treating them like they   journey with slaves that are trying to
                                            only reason that you would want to
 Slavery was not right at all, it was         Slavery should have never   are the same as us, because they are!          ?Most slaves lived on large   escape their plantation and then
 discriminating to the highest point, it   happened for the sake of all the         The definition of slavery: a   plantations or small farms; many   stay with a slave owner would be if   escape slavery period. This is an
                                            they were not using you for hard
 was promoted physical abuse.   African American people getting   condition compared to that of a slave   masters owned fewer than 50   amazing book and is definitely
                                            labor, but more of a ?servant?. Some
        Slavery first started in Jamestown,   treated the way they did. Although   in respect of exhausting labor or   slaves.? (Slavery in AMerica). Slaves   recommended if you want to read
 Virginia in 1619. Slavery was officially   slavery was terrible it did shape our   restricted freedom. There were many   were mainly used for hard labor, or   slaves knew that they would get   about the experience of slave life
                                            killed if they tried to run, and fear of
 ended in 1865. It lasted 246 years.   nation and made many things in   people in American history that   labor that white people thought they   and attempting to escape it. That?s a
                                            failure kept them in their place.
 That?s 246 years of african american   history happen. Without slavery,   owned slaves. There were at least 12   were too good to do. Slaves were   wrap on the topic of slavery.
 people being sold, abused, beaten,   there would be no ?Civil War?. The   United States presidents that owned   separated from their families, most   Slaves that did escape from their
                                            plantation and were caught were I
 killed and treated like the bottom of   Civil War was a major event in our   slaves at one time or another. Eight
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