What did white people do when slaves were caught escaping?
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Beat them  Brand them.  Whip them.   Depending on the owners, Punishment could have ranged from average to most severe.  Such as mutilation, severe whippings....etc.
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Their minds were focused on one goal:  freedom.\n\nWhen you set your mind on something, you achieve it.\n\nUnfortunately the owners took slaves for granted.  As a result, they were not prepared for traps.
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White people,they are good at changing the course of history.
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well there is a major difference,.african slaves were forced from their homeland and brought here in the bottom of ships. they had no choice in the matter. these immigrants are paid poorly.. i agree.. but slaves who were beaten ..recieved no money.. its a lot easier to cross back over  fence if you dislike it here.. than to find a boat to go back to africa... the same for european slaves. no way out for the indentured servants..   i do agree they are taken advantage of.. and shame on the people who prey on the misfortune of thoseseeking a better life.  but things have to be done properly.. and you cant just come into this country illegally and expect a welcome mate
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Ebonics the new American language.The teacher should of sent them to the principles office, let them teach them how to speak proper English.Then the teacher is not libel.White people take the blame for their ancestors enslavement.When there own people in slaved them in Africa first.I'm not justifying the wrong,any enslavement is wrong.Just quit blaming the cracker for all your ills.
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The story is that in the days of slavery many were whipped to force them to work or perform tasks. Thus the skin would be flayed from their backs. If you were a slave who did as he were told you wouldn't be whipped although your companion may be, hence the phrase.
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There wasn't really a railroad underground.  That's just a term used for the secret paths the slaves knew to take to gain their freedom.
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Nothing, Labor was free. the rocks cost nothing. China built the wall with slaves, if they resisted, they got put into the wall.
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Well,obviously they were stressed to even have to use them or even run away.There was danger of being caught and maybe killed,or at the very least,flogged or have their toes chopped off.But despite all this stress,it was even moreso to remain as slaves,some of them with bad masters.\n\nIf these Brave people had their ways,they would just as soon live in the state,city/town of their choice as Free Americans.
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Honestly, I think that Caucasians took the African Americans only to do a job that they thought they were too high and mighty to do.\n\nI mean if you could force someone else to pick your fields of cotton in the blistering heat, or work your tobacco fields why wouldn't you? \n\nThey enslaved people to do their work, while they sat on the front porches and drank iced tea. It was simply a convenience issue.
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The Underground Railroad was a loose association of people, not a system of tracks. Indeed, much of a typical flight to freedom involved many miles of walking,\nusually at night to avoid detection. Still, it is possible to see these patterns in the escape routes. The refugee slaves tended to areas of easier, known, and more secretive routes, such as the Mississippi river and the Appalachian Mountains.\n\nThe Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850 made it more dangerous for runaways to stay in urban areas in the North. Therefore, more salves continued on to Canada or to the Caribbean in the aftermath of this bill.\nI hope this helps you some ^_^
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He never accumulated a lot of slaves.  He sold 30,000 of the at one time though.  He was a also a cross dresser.
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Often times the people at the safe houses, or conductors on the railroad, would give not only food and shelter, but instructions on where to go next.  \n\nAlso, many people don't realize that the underground railroad didn't end in the north.  If a runaway slave was found in the north he was still returned to his "owner."  The underground railroad when all the way to Canada.
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Yes.  Some of us escaped.
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because they are sick of being the white man slave
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I guess it is possible that the first blacks who were freed from slavery used physical punishment, since that is what they knew.  This may have then taught their kids that violence is the way to handle problems, then it was passed down the generations.  So, maybe the first blacks learned it from their white masters, but after that they learned it from their parents.\n\nThe same can be said for white people who physically abuse their kids--they most often learn if from their parents.  \n\nI grew up in a household where my dad would get drunk and slap me or pull my hair.  I decided not to do this to my kids because I don't want to pass on the legacy of violence.
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See, I am in Third Grade and I love writing about the history of people that have helped me and my family see my dad was born into slavery and he also escaped to the North with Harriet Tubman. Sorry to get off track but here is a part of my report from my studies I learned that Harriet Tubman first escaped to the north by her self then she realized that if she only helped herself she would be selfish and so she made nineteen trips to the south and helped over three hundred people escape from slavery. Again sorry for getting off track but she was against slavery because she said that we should not be judged by the color of our skin and that it is very unfair for white people to own black people.My dad got some slave laws and here they are. \n\n                          Slave Laws\n1. No one was allowed to teach slaves how to read or write nor were they to be given books or pamphlets.\n\n2. Slaves were not allowed to buy or consume liquor without the written consent of their masters.\n\n3. Slave owners were required to feed and clothe their slaves and take care of their sick and elderly slaves. Failure to do so could result in a fine to the master.\n\n4. Slaves were not allowed to preach, except to their masters' slaves on their own plantation and in presence of white people.\n\n5. Any child who had one free parent and one slave parent was only free if the mother was the free parent.\n\n6. Slaves could not conduct business without a permit or own any personal prperty.\n\n7. Slaves were not allowed to own or have their possession weapons of any kind.\n\n8. The testimony of slaves in court was disallowed  exept in those cases involving other slaves.\n\n9. It was illegal to mistreat or kill a slave unless the slave resisted punishment.\n\n10. SLaves were not allowed to strike white men or to insult them in any way.\n\n11. Slaves were never allowed to enter into any kind of legal binding contract, including contracts of marriage.\n\n12. A slave who traveled away from his own plantation  had to have a pass to show as a means of identification to any white man who challenged him.\n\n13. Slaves were not allowed to swear, smoke or walk with a cane in public.\n\n14. Slaves had to step aside when whites passed them on a public street.\n\n15. It was illegal for mare than five slaves to gather together away from their own homes unless in the presence of white people.\n\n16. Slaves were not allowed to own their own animals, nor could they grow their own cotton; however, theey could  have thier own gardens if thier masters allowed.\n\n17. It was illegal for a master to work his slave in the field on Sundays exept as punishment or unless he paid them for their work.\n\nI hope all the above information helps you an your school project. E-mail me and tell me if this info works or not. My e-mail address is a-maknojia@sbcglobal.net.