was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops on plantations could be supervised

while slaves used simple routines to harvest them, the low price at which slaves

could be bought, and earning profits as a bonus for not having to pay hired

work. But in the beginning half of the 19th century a strong push for slavery's

final straw was coming. The people of the South tended to be more genteel,

and seemed not quite adjusted to hard work, but more to giving orders. The

idea of telling people how to do their work just seemed to fit all too well into

this scenario. Slaves lived under virtually unsuitable conditions. Douglass'

account of a slave's life told of the trying times on the plantation. An allowance

was given to the workers. A monthly allowance consisted of mostly of pork

and corn meal but also some money. Yearly slaves were given clothes, a

couple shirts, and two pairs of pants-one pair of pants for

they were forced into. The North was angry about the treatment of the slaves

their owners they would be forced by the whip and "encouraged" to work

the slaves back. It is amazing there were not more slave uprisings. But finally,

Underground Railroad, they slowly began to run more and more. But in the

they were not told how to live-and who wouldn't be? Then there were some

white man or women for that matter. Professions for blacks were very limited.

discrimination ran freely against blacks, they were not given all rights of the

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Slavery America, Underground Railroad, South Southerners, life told, slaves escape,
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)