The term slave is defined as a person held in servitude as the property of another, or completely passive in the face of a dominant influence. The most well-known cases of slavery occurred during the colonization of the United States of America. From 1619 until July 1, 1928, slavery was authorized in our country. Slavery abolitionists attempted to end slavery, which at one point; they succeeded. This article will take the reader in many different directions, it will examine slavery from a legal aspect within the meaning of the Constitution and the Thirteenth Amendment, and it will also discuss how abolitionists attempted to end slavery . This article will also discuss how slaves were taken from their families and how their lives were affected. Beginning in the 1830s, white abolitionists attempted to prove that American slaves suffered physically, emotionally, and spiritually at the hands of those who asserted their rights. property (Pierson, 2005). Like the ones we saw in our American literature textbook. Not only did they suffer from these things, but they also had issues with their identity once they left slavery or were freed from slavery, which is why we saw a lot of former slaves change their identity. Abolitionists were determined to raise awareness about how slaves were treated. They even argued about the basic facts of Southern plantation life, such as slave owners dividing families, legalizing rape, and not recognizing slave marriages as legitimate (Pierson, 2005). In the interregional slave trade, hundreds of thousands of slaves were moved long distances from their birthplaces and original homes as the slave economy migrated from the eastern seaboards to Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas (Thornton...... middle of paper .. ....you loved most being with people you never knew and people who will treat you very unequally, it must have been a sad life, and we all need to remember what these people had to go through. Independent Review, 14(1), 71-79. Constitution and Slavery: A Special Relationship and Abolition, 28(3). doi:10.1080/01440390701685514 Ghali, K. (2008). PUNISHMENT AND SEXUAL SLAVERY, 55(3), 607-642, MD (2005). ". Journal of the First Republic, 25(3), 383-415. Taken from EBSCOhost.