Life Under Slavery- Urban and Rural Slavery

By 1830 there were nearly an estimated, 2 million slaves in the United States. On plantations men, women, and children worked everyday from sun rise to sunset. In the city, slave demand became high in the 1830's because there was a shortage of white workers. Slavery in the city was very different from rural slavery. It was because the slaves in the cities usually worked in factories and were never had supervision, while plantation slaves were always forced to work as fast as possible because they did not want to get punished.