Some depict hunters with bows, naked humans (though you rarely see the gender), some children (most carried or on the backs of others) and animals
If you are referring to during the time of slavery, up north there was no slavery and they were free. If you are referring to during the civil Rights movement, African Americans faced less discrimination up north and no Jim Crow laws.
Answer : The sentence correctly uses the word sordid is:
_ The girl found all of the sordid tasks of cleaning to be uninteresting and menial.