The Never-Ending Struggle for Equality
...-1600s, European Americans brought slaves to the American colonies. This form of slavery started a trend and spread into the southern parts of the country. Slaves of the south were much different than there northern counterparts. It became apparent that southern masters were treating their slaves more like animals than people. Southern slaves endured torture from their masters day in and day out. The forms of punishments given to the slaves were enough to make a person wish for death, but the slaves continued to hold on. Slave masters went to no limit in trying to prove a point or teach lessons to slaves for example, “Planter William Byrd forced a slave bedwetter to drink a ‘pint of piss,’ and Joseph Ball placed a metal ‘bit’ in the mouth of persistent runaways” (Berlin 60-61). With determination and drive, slaves began to participate in a large freedom movement. Slaves would take any opportunity to escape from their overbearing, dehumanizing masters. With help from northern whites who had become abolitionist and former slaves, southern slaves began to make there way to the free no...