When they died, they were usually buried on their masters property. Also, many took the last name of their master. It hurts to say this, but facts are facts.

That human beings were put into slavery without their wanting too and also they were taken away from their home land.

It was completely, terribly immoral

Southern slavery tended to occur in the south.

The Emancipation Proclamation didn't free any slaves in the South.

Slaves were regarded like cattle or any other property. But we should be very careful to condemn the salve-holding class and we should see the context of that time. It is too easy to judge things from the point of view of our time. Clearly the slave-holding class had their slaves whch were used as mere propety and who were bought and sold like cattle but I want to point out that at the very same time in Europe, Napoleon who was invading with his series of terrible wars all over Eurpa, was catching millions of young men in all countries for his armies, forcing them to fight for him and to die for him. I do not think that a young German farmer who was forced to march to Russia was better off than a slave on a southern plantation. Ad I want to underline what happened at the same time in England where yung boys of 5 ond 6 years were used quite worse in many upper class households as slaves or for extreme hard work even in the mines. I think that most slaves had a quite better life than most other people in Old Europe. I just would recommend the stories of Charles Dickens in his "Bald old days". In most european countries young boys and girls were bought in the orphanages just like slaves and forced to extreme wrk for their mistresses and masters, including all kind sexual abuse.

there are a few significant facts about slavery that are not mentioned. first of all, slavery was not just in the south, it was also in the North, they recently uncovered an old slave burial ground in New York. Also, most slaves came into the US Via Jamaica, the only ports that slaves entered into the US were in South Carolina (which actually had a higher population of blacks than whites) and Virginia. Slaves in Georgia,Alabama, and Mississippi were imported from Jamaica. Slaves were instrumental in creating much of what is now known as American cuisine. Slaves mastered the art of Barbecuing, and also showed the whites how to plant and cultivate rice (the largest crop in South Carolina)The cotton gin was actually invented by a slave. worst than slavery were the actual jim crow laws that prohibited teaching of slaves, and also the fact that once a slave was too old to work, they were often placed in a cabin outside of the actual landowners area, and left to fend for themselves, or depend on family members for food. Harriet Tubman watched her father die from starvation because she was unable to bring him food during the day because of work. Another significant factor was the way history is depicted for slaves from Africa. Think of this for a moment, do you really think a continent that had cities and civilizations thousands of years before Europe were so dumb that they couldn't build a ship and sail the oceans? I believe that Africans visited and traded with native Americans long before Columbus came to the "new world"

It was obviously an ignorant thing to start. Thats about all I know.