***** Reply to each post Min 200 words each***** 1. Slaves within the United States were forced to endure many things that range all the way from working in the fields with little water to drink and belly's mostly empty to being beaten and whip for actions one would not even reprimand a child for. From an outside perspective these might be viewed as terrible fates, but what do we make of families being torn apart. It begs us to ask the question, can a man truly be placed on a scale and find his weight in coins? In my research I found it ironic that often times when a black slave family was being separated from each other it was because a white slave owner had died and his/her earnings was being separated amongst their kin. I emphasize the color of skin only because I found it shocking that in the time of grieving over losing a family member white people during this time period were completely okay separating someone-else's family. In “FIFTY YEARS IN CHAINS Or, the Life of an American Slave” by Charles Ball, he shares the gruesome details of the day he was separated from his family. His mother pleaded with the slave master that had purchased her son from the slave block to also purchase her other children and herself. Pleaded with the man to not separate her from any of her children. He goes on to tell how his new slave master promised to take care of her son. And how see was beaten before his eyes for her efforts to keep her family together. That was the final memory he made with his mother. Another text, “Incidents in the life of a slave girl” by Harriet Jacobs she also shares her accounts of being separated from her. When her mistresses had pass, she thought that her dying testament she would have granted her, her freedom. Instead she had become a parting gift given to a five-year old child. A mistress she once loved; she grew resent realizing all she ever was to her was property. Slave families on Plantations lived with the fear of being separated on any day, at any moment. Working hard to prove worth to the slave master. Keeping their heads low hopping to live there unnoticed to anyone but the ones that they loved. Mother's and Father using their skills and crafts trying to make money hoping to buy their children’s freedom. Ultimately, being tricked and rejected because slaves weren’t allowed own anything. One thing that slaves new for sure, that if they were sold, they were to never see their family members again. 2. Initially in the early years of the American Revolution it was thought that slavery would end based off of its progression but the invention of cotton gin in 1793 changed everything in the South. The demand of cotton was increased by the Industrial Revolution which allowed slave patterns to change geographically and demographically due to the uptick in demand. First the number of slaves increased from 700,000 to 4 million by the eve of the civil war. In the south, 15% of slaves served as domestic servants such ...