“All men are created equal” is one saying from the Declaration Of Independence, but how true is it really? The United States was not truly, a “land of the free” in any time between the colonial time to the civil war. America has always treated black men, women, and children in such an unfair manner. American landowners bought blacks as slaves. They had these slaves work on their plantations for them and do most of their chores. Most slavery was in the south but that did not mean that blacks in the north were treated like human. Many slaves had said, after they were no longer in slavery, that they would rather die than ever have to go back to being slave again. Many recordings of what formers slaves were found and tell us today how dreadful their experiences truly were. …show more content…
This was basically because the southerners wanted to keep their slaves because they did all the work in the fields for them. The northerners were not happy with slavery and did not think that they have to live in a place where people were treated in such a horrible manner. In the Compromise of 1850, congress was trying to figure out how to add new states to America without getting anyone mad. They did this by deciding weather new states should be slave states or free states. They wanted to end the deadlock over California. The compromise would decide whether California would become a slave state or a free state. With the compromise in place they figured that California should be a free state so they added Utah and New Mexico as slave states. Everyone was hoping the compromise would make everyone happy but the south still wanted more slave states and the north was mad that there were more slave states. This just shows how slavery was here and literally tour our nation apart. And it was just odd that some of America believed that slavery truly was a good thing to have and other thought of it as something