Use the words overseer, slave codes, spiritual, and underground railroad in a brief paragraph about slavery in the south

In the 1800s, there was a booming population of African American slaves in the south and began several cases of wrongdoings to human rights. Overseers of slaves were often physical and sexual abusers of their slaves. The slaves were also restricted to slave codes such as prohibition of the right to education. Furthermore, most Southern slaves held unto Old World spiritual beliefs to face their struggles creating more hatred with their masters. Eventually in the 1830s, the Southern slaves built underground roads to escape to the northern states. They began a rebellion that shaped the true meaning of equal human rights today.