“the punishments were whipping, putting you in the stocks [wooden frames to lock people in] and...
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“The punishments were whipping, putting you in the stocks [wooden frames to lock people in] and making you wear irons and a chain at work…Sometimes they dug a hole like a well with a door on top. This they called a dungeon: keeping you in it two or three weeks or a month, or sometimes till you died there.”
Africa was a beautiful place before slavery.
12 million people were taken between 1450-1850.
20% didn’t make it to America.
Slaves found small ways to rebel against masters.
Fleeing to the North was hard.
Nat Turner’s Rebellion