African Americans were among the people who were enslaved at the time in the 18th century. Most of the slaves were located in the south. There are three main things that helped the slaves to overcome these troubles of slavery, by no means did they make up for the torture they were put through; however, they did help to pass time. The 3 main things the slaves did to over come these time were, practicing old …showed first 75 words of 662 total…

…showed last 75 words of 662 total…keeping their heritage and thinking of plots to get around the work. But they were like a time bomb waiting to go off, they did everything they could to forget about the harsh ways of slavery, but eventually came to no other alternatives. Although they never had a chance to prevail over the southern whites at the time, I admire them for trying. I believe anyone in that situation would have performed the same task.