This period of time was very hard for all African slaves. They
were forced to fight in multiple wars whether they wanted to or not. Many of
them died and the one that survived the wars were sent straight back to their
slave owners and put to work again. The southern states were huge on slavery
because they could work in the fields and farmers gained large amounts of money
in those days. When the Missouri Compromise was passed it allowed the states of
Missouri and Arkansas to have slavery and all of the states to the west and
north of them were not allowed to have slavery. This gave slaves a shorter
route of escape so many fleeted to these northern states to become free people.
However, if they were captured they would get severely beaten and some common
punishments were getting slashes to the Achilles and getting their ears cut off
along with lots of whips.