Chapter Eight "What Slaves are Taught to Think of The North"

Harriet tells the readers that the slaveholders lied about the free-states in order to refrain any of them from running away. The slaveholders would make the North seem as if it were unappealing.  Masters attempt to get into the minds of slaves by saying things such as “god created Africans to be slaves.” The corrupting power of slavery in this chapter is shown when slaveholders lie about the North and keep the “free-states” away from them. They control slaves minds so that they won’t want to go to a better place.