By the turn of the nineteenth century (the year 1800) enslaved persons had attempted to revolt against the institution of slavery many times.

The Founding Fathers deliberately excluded the word slavery from the US Constitution.

Slaveholders tended to provide well for enslaved persons because it was argued the most profitable plantations were those on which workers were well fed, adequately housed, and decently clothed.

By 1827, few enslaved persons resided in the North; however, the North was dependent on slavery in the first half of the nineteenth century.

In the 1700s and 1800s, the majority of whites in the South owned slaves.

An enslaved person’s price/tax value was determined only by how much work they could perform.

By the mid-1800s, the United States’ government passed laws punishing anyone who concealed runaways or helped enslaved persons escape.

The importation of slaves from Africa to the United States was banned in 1808. As a result, the overall enslaved population declined.

Enslaved persons were sometimes hired out to do labor for others, which meant they spent time away from their slaveholders.

Eight of the first eighteen United States presidents were slaveholders at some point in their lives.

In the South, some persons of African descent were slaveholders themselves.