· Slaves often worked up to 16 hours per day and were whipped often.
· Owners could separate families by selling husbands, wives, and their children to different buyers.
· Strong family relationships were formed through extended families.
· Many slaves tried to escape to the North. Few were successful.
· In 1831, an African-American preacher named Nat Turner led a revolt in Virginia, killing 57 whites.
· Turner was caught and hanged. His revolt, however, increased Southerner’s fears of slave revolts.
American Colonization Society (1817) – wanted to end slavery by setting up a colony in West Africa for freed slaves.
· In 1822, the nation of Liberia was formed and several thousand African-Americans settled there.
· Most African-Americans wanted to stay in the U.S., which was their homeland.
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