Slavery Everwhere

As much as Americans may be surprised to hear it, slavery did not end in this country with the Civil War and the emancipation proclamation. It continues, and it exists even in Utah

.In recent years, we have tried to bring attention to the spread of modern slavery, both in the United States and abroad. Some may feel the story the Thai workers tell doesn't qualify as true slavery because they were paid some money in return for the work they performed; but they had no freedom, the money was not as much as promised, and they say they were subjected to constant threats to their family members at home

.The U.S. State Department has said child trafficking is so well-hidden that authorities in the United States and Europe have no idea how many child maids live in the West.
Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world, and yet it persists. Last year, the United States convicted 47 people of human trafficking, but many countries do not take the crime seriously. And, of course, the victims almost always are voiceless and helpless.Washington has done more than most countries to bring attention to this problem, but more must be done.

The Obama administration needs to make this a priority. As the case of the Thais in Utah demonstrates, the problem can exist anywhere.

 

Harriet Ross Tubman (Slavery)

From the year 1823-1913 Harriet Ross tubman was orn into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She gained international acclaim as an Underground Railroad operator, abolitionist, Civil War spy and nurse, suffragist, and humanitarian. After escaping from enslavement in 1849, she dedicated herself to fighting for freedom, equality, and justice for the remainder of her  life, earning her the biblical name "Moses" and a place among the nation's most famous historical figures.

Harriet Tubman was the fifth of 9 children that were born. Working as a field hand while a young teen, Tubman was nearly killed by a blow to her head from an iron weight, thrown by an angry overseer at another fleeing slave.

  


















The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 left most refugee slaves vulnerable to recapture, and many fled to the safety and protection of Canada. Indeed, Tubman brought many of her charges to St. Catharines, Ontario, where they settled into a growing community of freedom seekers. Her dangerous missions won the admiration of black and white abolitionists throughout the North who provided her with funds to continue her activities.

  After the war, Tubman returned to Auburn, New York. There she began another career as a community activist, humanitarian, and suffragist. In 1869, Sarah Bradford published a short biography of Tubman called "Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman," bringing brief fame and financial relief to Tubman and her family. She married Nelson Davis, a veteran, that same year; her husband John Tubman had been killed in 1867 in Dorchester County, Maryland. She struggled financially the rest of her life, however. Denied her own military pension, she eventually received a widow's pension as the wife of Nelson Davis, and, later, a Civil War nurse's pension.

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person.An organized system to assist runaway slaves seems to have begun towards the end of the 18th century. In 1786 George Washington complained about how one of his runaway slaves was helped by a "society of Quakers, formed for such purposes.

For the slave, running away to the North was anything but easy. The first step was to escape from the slaveholder. For many slaves, this meant relying on his or her own resources." The fugitives would also travel by train and boat conveyances that sometimes had to be paid for. Money was also needed to improve the appearance of the runaways a black man, woman, or child in tattered clothes would invariably attract suspicious eyes. This money was donated by individuals and also raised by various groups, including vigilance committees.

The Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John Fairfield in Ohio, the son of a slaveholding family, who made many daring rescues, Levi Coffin, a Quaker who assisted more than 3,000 slaves, and Harriet Tubman, who made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.














slaves have to at least live somehow in order to survive.

The Starting of Slavery

 Slavery in the United States was a form that  existed as a legal institution in North America for more than a century before the founding of the United States in 1776. Most slaves were black and were held by whites, although some Native Americans and free blacks also held slaves; there were a small number of white slaves as well.Slavery spread to the areas where there was good-quality soil for large plantations of high-value cash crops.Some slaveholders were black or had some black ancestry.

In 1830 there were 3,775 such slaveholders in the South, with 80% of them located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. There were economic differences between free blacks of the Upper South and Deep South

 People paid with their labor for the costs of transport to the colonies. They contracted for such arrangements because of poor economies in their home countries. Slavery was a contentious issue in the Politics in the United States from the 1770s through the 1860s, becoming a topic of debate in the drafting of the Constitution, a subject of Federal legislation such as the ban on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the fugitive slave act of 1850.

 To help regulate the relationship between slave and owner, including legal support for keeping the slave as property slave codes were established. While each state would have its own, most of the ideas were shared throughout the slave states



 



 Some slaveholders were black or had some black ancestry. In 1830 there were 3,775 such slaveholders in the South, with 80% of them located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. There were economic differences between free blacks of the Upper South and Deep South.

Emancipation and Proclamtion

In the early 1770's movement towards emancipation started.Due to the distance and difficulty of traveling between Nassau and the Turks and Caicos Islands it is likely that it would have been more difficult for the Assembly in Nassau to guarantee that the Laws were being upheld.

The 1796 consolidated Slave Act made it law for slave owners to provide suitable clothing and provisions for the slave communities as well as limiting the degree of punishments that could be inflicted on the slaves.

In March 1807 the British Government outlawed the slave trade and abolished slavery in the United Kingdom. In the overseas territories slavery was still legal but there should have been no purchasing of slaves directly from Africa. Any captured slaves became the property of the government and were placed in the hands of the chief customs officer, and could be bound in apprenticeships for up to 14 years.

This movement put pressure on the governments of colonial areas, much to the disgust of these Assemblies who disliked interference in their affairs. However, in the end they had to succumb to the political will from Westminster.


This restricted the punishment of the slaves, and even though the initial attempt was the removal of flogging as a punishment for female slaves this was changed to female slaves being flogged in private only, and now flogging could not consist of more than 39 lashes at any one time. Any owner who mistreated a slave could also now be imprisoned.

Mistreatment of slaves

Slaves were mistreated, and in some places still are because they are looked upon as an object, but not a human. It is a shame that people have to think that way because we are all imperfect. they were also mistreated for pleasure and were even killed just for making a weeny mistake such as doing something wrong, this is not fair as we should all be treated fairly because we all have human rights and equal opportunities and people should not dis that as no one should be higher up than other people we should all be at an equal height.

Slaves were often mistreated and abused on a daily bases. Slaves were mistreated both verbally and physically.Woman that will confront their masters were punished severely if not by death their hand would be amputated. Amputated meaning the hand was cut off. 

Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property and are forced to work Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work.

 This image here shows a man being mistreated and getting beaten.

I think that slavery should of never existed because who has the right to take someones life away or even make them suffer the way slaves were suffering. everyone has the right to be treated equalally unless they have committed a crime.

Although there were clearly many cases of mistreatment the attitude towards slaves "softened" with time. By-and-large slaves who worked in large farm estates under the yoke of a beastly farm manager had the worst of it. Slaves working in the city had far better prospects.


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