African Americans were not given the opportunity to express themselves without punishment or death. A plantation owner states that slaves are at the mercy of the owners, “they are always subject to my calling without for a moment questioning its rightness (Foner 215).” “No negro shall leave the place at any time without my leave,” slaves were treated like objects and were expected to work in harsh conditions without any ethical morality (Foner 215). Slavery divided people between pro-slavery and anti-slavery. As previously stated, the North was against slavery while the South saw no problem with the expansion of slavery