Slavery limited people’s basic rights. People could be sold to other owners. One boy remembers that when he was very young when he was sold to a different owner.(Doc 1.) He recalls “I was 12 or 14 years old when I was sold I was a boy big enough to work. “ families often never saw each other again them again. Frederick Douglass once said “ In law a slave has no wife no children no country and no home” (Doc 2 ) Slaves also had bad living conditions one slave said “ we lodged in log huts on the bare ground. Wooden floors were an unknown luxury. Our beds were collections of straw and old rags thrown down in corners and boxed with boards, a single blanket the only covering--- the wind whistled and the rain and snow blew in through the cracks