After learning about how badly slaves were treated in the ante bellum south, many people wonder as to why more slaves didn't run away or rebel. In the book, Kindred, Octavia Butler shows that the fear of running away and the consequences of getting caught were reasons to stay in slavery and not rebel. <Tab/>The fear of the possible effects prevented many slaves from attempting to run away. When the …showed first 75 words of 648 total…

…showed last 75 words of 648 total…being free. <Tab/>Fear was the overall reason of potential runaway slaves changing their minds. They feared the brutal beatings they would get if they got caught. And even if they were to successfully escape, there is still the fact that they had to live completely on their own. Octavia Butler made it clear in Kindred that most slaves played it safe and accepted the life of slavery due to fear.