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If slavery was so bad why didn't they just run away?
submitted 1 year ago by sneako from self.AskSaidIt
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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
This is why slavery always becomes extremely brutal, to stop slaves just running away you have to make the punishments worse than death.
Also where are you going to run away to if 100 miles in every direction is slave owning culture. There's a reason the runaway slave network in the US was called the underground railroad. They had to get them out of there fast. Without modern tech covering the distance before getting caught was pretty much impossible.
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