Slaves and their lives

Slaves were not sold as families but sent separately to different owners. Children were sometimes sent away from their mother, brother, father, alone to a place they don't know at all. This must be the case to prevent the slaves to plan an escape and to not know where they are. This would be an advantage for the slave owners.
The black were not allowed to receive education. one reason would be because they were thought as people not smart (dumb). Another reason would be because they could outsmart their owners and so escape easily.
Free slaves were not always free. They would sometimes be captured and put as slaves again. Unfortunately they were never really free.
Slaves would slow work habits, break tools, or steal food to be able to mess up the owners plantation and wealth.
Uncle Toms Cabin is a book written by Harriet Beeder Stowe. This book describe what a slave's life was like. How miserable and painful the work would be. The unfairness the slaves were facing everyday. This book scorned about slave owners too. People started reading this book (many people did). Some slave owners would say that the slaves they owned would live happily with them that they were treated equally. Wore the same things, ate the same food, treated the same way and etc. (nothing proved that this was the case for slaves).