Many slaves married and had children and they didn’t want their family unit to be broken up. One-third of the slaves being sold in the South were court-ordered sheriff’s actions to payback the planters debts. Then the slaves began to organize and resist slavery. In 1811 hundreds of slave in Louisiana marched through New Orleans, with guns, waving flags, and beating drums. It took 300 soldiers of the U.S. Army to stop their actions. Nat Turner led a bloody rebellion, in which 60 whites were killed in Virginia in 1831. Some also escaped their bondage with the help of the Underground Railroad. An informal network of sympathetic free blacks who helped fugitives from the South escape to the North. Approximately 130,000 slaves used the Underground Railroad for their freedom. The married slaves were less likely to run away from families, so they sabotaged farm equipment, worked slowly and inefficiently, but one of the extreme actions of their discontentment was to poison the entire plantation owners’
Many slaves married and had children and they didn’t want their family unit to be broken up. One-third of the slaves being sold in the South were court-ordered sheriff’s actions to payback the planters debts. Then the slaves began to organize and resist slavery. In 1811 hundreds of slave in Louisiana marched through New Orleans, with guns, waving flags, and beating drums. It took 300 soldiers of the U.S. Army to stop their actions. Nat Turner led a bloody rebellion, in which 60 whites were killed in Virginia in 1831. Some also escaped their bondage with the help of the Underground Railroad. An informal network of sympathetic free blacks who helped fugitives from the South escape to the North. Approximately 130,000 slaves used the Underground Railroad for their freedom. The married slaves were less likely to run away from families, so they sabotaged farm equipment, worked slowly and inefficiently, but one of the extreme actions of their discontentment was to poison the entire plantation owners’