slaveryks

= Going Once.. Going Twice..SOLD! = ==== Slavery in the 1860's was big until Abe Lincoln decided African Americans should be free. He accomplished this by creating the emancipation proclamation. Black men were able to vote and as soon as they were set free they drafted into the army to serve their country. Before this idea though, slaves were tortured and auctioned off like cars. They were treated as if they weren't human beings, like they were barbaric animals. They deprived them from ever learning so that they wouldn't form a mutiny against their owners. ====