Slavery Continued

After the slaves were bought, they went to plantations to work on crops such as tobacco, which was the most prosperous at the time. The tobacco industry started to dwindle and with it slavery, until 1793 when Eli Whitney created the cotton gin. Cotton had been seen in earlier years but now it was thriving; slaves were in high demand. They worked incredibly long and hard hours, basically working themselves to death. There were a few lucky women slaves that got to work in the house, a lot better than working in the heat, but it wasn't as luxurious as the owners made it out to be. These certain slaves were repeatedly raped, sometimes even getting pregnant and bearing children. There were a few owners who treated their slaves with kindness and mercy, but it was very rare. People like William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe fought to show the cruelties of slavery but life remained the same for slaves for many years because of the Dred Scott Decision. The struggle finally came to an end with the Civil War in 1861. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHOVSYK4c88