How Did Frederick Douglass Use The Slave Code Of Slavery

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I'm going to talk about the slaves and how they used the slave code, how the agriculture in the 19th century south had no factories, and how plantation owners needed slavery, the cotton gin and how expensive it was.

The slavery code was also called black codes or Negro laws. These laws put the slaves under the owner's dominion. The purpose of the codes was to keep the slaves from rebelling and escaping their owners. The slave codes would not let the slaves gather in large groups, they had to have a written pass before leaving the plantation and they couldn't go to school to learn. Slavery is a hard, miserable life. Frederick Douglas, a slave, said, "If at any one time of my life more than another I was made to drink the bitter dregs of slavery."

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