Summary Of Roots Of Secession

Slavery was horrible back then because the slaves used to get abused and whipped. They also did not get the basic human rights they desired like freedom of speech and the right to vote. The slave owners disregarded them as if the slaves were nothing to them and since the slaves were so badly abused, they found each other to lean on when the times got rough. William Link wrote a book called, Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia, and in it, he goes into depth about African Americans and how their their acts of disobedience towards their owners lead to the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. Link states in this book, “They regarded slaves as human personalities only in the same sense that they regarded their children: