What Helped Cause the Death of Slavery?
The 13th Amendment is actually the act that abolished slavery as anything legal permanently in the United States, although the Emancipation Proclamation made it clear to the South that slavery was no longer to be tolerated. The horrendous mistreatment of black slave people in the United States is in fact noteworthy, although slaves are not noted to have been well treated by anybody on Earth, perhaps with exceptions. It is said some American slave owners supported abolition, and performed acts such as slipping slaves money so they could buy their own freedom and that of their family members. Some decent white and black people did what they could against the slave laws. But in general, it was legal for an owner to do almost anything he wanted to his slaves to make money – the usual root of all evil. Indentured servitude, practiced in the original colonies for a short time, lasted four to seven years for both white and black workers alike. It was meant at first as a method to use cheap la
