...for supplies, the growth of slavery and how the people viewed it, and how slavery was treated in the South. First, the North and South relied on each other frequently for supplies. Both sides traded supplies to frequently that their economy was based on their trades. If either one of them decided...
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...The phenomenon of slavery in America eventually evolved to such an extreme extent that the institution and its aftermath created many years of discrimination and the dramatic split of social classes. Although America thrived economically due to slave labor when it was established, without the Abolitionist Movement, it is unlikely that individuals in our society would have the equal rights and freedoms that they enjoy today. From the 1600’s to the 1800’s, the original intention of slavery was to build economic prosperity for the new nation; however, the abuse that slaves endured eventually transformed slavery into America's greatest nightmare. Previously, in 1619, in America, slavery first began when 20 African slaves were put aboard a Dutch...
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...There are hundreds of different views about ‘slavery’. As Paul Finkelman says; few subjects in American history have been as compelling as slavery. Actually the reason, of why this is one of the most compelled and debated issue, is “slavery is not only one of the most ancient but also one of the most long-lived forms of economic and social organizations” . All antebellum Americans, in north and south, were affected directly or indirectly by slavery. When we look at the economic aspect of slavery, I can say that slavery helped the economic growth and development of the United States. It was a harsh but profitable system. Contrary to the arguments that see slavery as inefficient and detriment to America’s economy, I believe that it was a benefactor. As Stampp and Fogel argue, slavery was morally untenable; it was a harsh working system but an efficient and profitable one. This paper will touch upon different arguments about efficiency of slavery and how slavery affected the South economy. This paper will try to clarify the issue that whether slavery was a benefactor or detriment for economy of the United States. The debate has gone on for a long time and it is about whether the slavery was efficient or not and whether it was an economic burden on regions. Historians emphasized mostly on the issue of whether or not slavery was a benefactor or detriment to the United States. There are two opposite poles of this debate. From those historians, Ulrich B. Phillips represented one pole...
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...The North and South were very different by the 1860's. Several changes took place within the nation during this time from an onset of events happening after the 1820's. Inside of America, slavery became a major issue that tore the nation into two. Northerners favored equality for all, while contrarily Southerners supported the bondage of slaves to continue the labor of cotton productions, and ultimately, to ensure white supremacy. “After abolition in the North, slavery became the 'peculiar institution' of the of South – an institution unique to southern society” (417). This was also another large factor which shaped the regions. Overall, between the 1820's and 1860's, many economical, social, cultural and political changes happened which divided the nation into two. The occurrence of several events widened the differences between the North and the South. Despite the Northerners hopes that slavery would eventually die out and equality for all would regulate the nation, “the institution of slavery survived the crisis of the American Revolution and continued to rapidly expand westward” (417). The onset of divisions between these two regions first occurred from the establishment of the Mason-Dixon line, which was placed between Pennsylvania and Maryland and became the diving line between slavery and freedom. After this, the South's slave population remained strong and grew substantially during this time. The old South was the largest and most powerful...
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...for The Half Has Never Been Told: 1) How have white historians in the past described the relationship between slavery in the American South and the rising political power and economic growth of the United States? Why was slavery not portrayed as a “modern” institution? a. White historians of the past have insisted that their existed no link between slavery and the growth of the United States in the nineteenth century. They have depicted slavery as a pre-modern institution with no commitment to profit seeking which would rule out its part in any economic expansion. However, this point of view ignores the fact that the “returns from (the) cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy” which proves...
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...Slavery during the 1700-1900’s was a major piece of history led by greed and inconsideration of human life involving several different colonizers. Slavery in America began in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 when a Dutch ship brought about twenty African men and women to help tend to crops and tobacco growth. This led other countries to turn to slavery for cheap labor. Slavery slowly developed into what we know to be a long history of economic growth, suffering, abuse, and mistreatment. The history of slavery not only includes slavery as a whole but also the slave ships, slave revolts, and much more. Finally, on December 6th, 1865 the 13th amendment was ratified by American congress to abolish slavery in the United States. The article written by...
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...to 1852, the United States began to have a growth of the abolitionist movement and increasing anti-slavery notions. The reason for the growing movement that opposed slavery was mainly caused by the Second Great Awakening and religious notions that stemmed from it, the growing notions of Sectionalism and the consequences of the early abolition of slavery in most New England states, and Racial Paternalism as a justification for slavery and the consequences of such. One reason slavery began to have growing opposition to it is due to the Second Great Awakening. Historically, the increase in religious fervor from the Second Great Awakening brought about reform movements such as the women’s suffrage movement, movements for the reform...
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...growing season. The first factories were the Samuel Slater Mill, built in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and the Booming Industrial Center located in Lowell, Massachusetts. In addition to the causes of Industrial North, there were the results of the Northern industry, which happened in 1804 that left all states North of Maryland’s ban slavery, including the Northwest Territory. Second, the South’s agricultural economy was another reason that also caused the division of American Industrialization. The Southern Industrial Economy was based on large plantations, and farms that focused on agriculture. Cash crops were grown for sales, such as tobacco, cotton, and sugar. The causes of Agricultural South consisted of a...
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...equality, which was not bound by class as it was in aristocratic Europe. The chapter of Democracy in America that will be analyzed in this paper is titled, “Situation of the Black Race in the United States, Dangers Entailed for the Whites by Its Presence”. Slavery and American racial mores circa 1830 will be addressed as we continue. At this time, the presence of blacks is the greatest dangers threatening America. African slaves were imported to many colonies and nations other than those in North America, but none of these other slave-importing countries achieved anywhere near the economic growth seen in the United States. Bacon's Rebellion was an event that redefined the notion of race in the United States. Africans were in America long before Bacon’s Rebellion. The Great Migration was a period that the colonies were in desperate need of laborers. Blacks, along with whites, worked as indentured servants. There were black indentured servants that owned land, some even owning slaves themselves. After Bacon’s Rebellion, there was a gradual change in the status of African Americans from indentured servants to slaves. Post Bacon’s Rebellion, there was a great demand for labor and that demand was met through slavery. The number of white indentured servants diminished and the number of black slaves grew. It became the nearly universal presumption that whites were free and blacks were enslaved. Bacon’s Rebellion created fear for another uprising. This fear led to the rise...
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...Although by 1820 slavery had been abolished in the northern states, the status of free blacks there was not better from that of free blacks in the southern part of the country. Except of New England; the northern blacks voting rights were denied. In the early nineteenth century New York required Blacks to own at least $250 worth of real property to vote, and New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut rescinded black suffrage In several Midwestern states blacks were prohibited from settling within their boundaries, using laws comparable to those banning free blacks from entering the southern states. In the northern cities, competition between blacks and immigrants—mainly the Irish—for low‐wage, unskilled jobs created tensions that erupted...
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...From the introduction of slavery to the Americas in 1619, to the massive economic growth came success and disaster for both American and Africans. In this passage it is planned to describe the development of slavery in the American colonies. As well as the economic impact of slavery on the American colonies, and how from slavery a 'triangular trade' would be created. Using supportive facts and a written testimonial from Harriet Jacobs published in the year 1861. Ultimately leading and ending to the discussion of the many attitudes and changes that were created in the colonial legal system that made a slavery system flourish. Around the mid fifteenth century an Atlantic slave trade system was introduced when the interests of the Portuguese moved away from common resources most especially when gold became more difficult to gather. The Portuguese than looked to something that would be more profitable. A process would develop in the gathering of slaves whether through barter, between a European slave trader, kidnapping or rival tribe leaders that had raved other African tribes. The focus would become the usage of slaves and the selling of the African race for a very hefty profit. The development of slavery in the colonies led to mass production in the labor field. This event in history is where the idea of African slavery...
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...An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas provides in an in depth look at the slavery existence in the state of Texas. He provides the factors that explain the establishment and growth of slavery. Campbell also explains the economic and legal institution of Texas, and explores the physical and psychological effects of both slaves and their masters prior to the Civil War, during, and after emancipation. Campbell provides clear detail of slavery's impact on Texas slaveholders and society, and how the Civil war affected slavery prior to its destruction. Slavery came to Texas from Anglo-American settlers and gained a foothold during the colonial period. For example, Galveston Bay was a big slave trading hub under the guidance of pirates who attacked Spanish shipping lanes, such as, Louis d'Aury and Jean Laffite. While, the Mexican government had a distaste for the institution, and their laws somewhat retarded it's growth. Slavery still increased exponentially toward the end of the colonial period. Stephen F. Austin argued that slavery was a practical necessity for the development and profitability of Texas. Campbell argues that slavery was a key reason for the Texas revolution. Though an opinion, evidence does support his argument. After the Texas revolution, Texans took great care in protecting the "peculiar institution" in the Constitution of 1835. After the Texas revolution, slavery expanded numerically with rapidity. As noted by Campbell, Slavery seemed to be...
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...population and expanding economy in British North America. The most important fact about eighteenth-century colonial America is its remarkable population growth. New England's population increased six fold during the eighteenth century and Natural increase was most responsible for the growth of New England's population during the eighteenth century. Immigrants came to the middle colonies for the perceived economic opportunities. Key Words: Scots-Irish They were a group of restless people who fled their homes in Scotland in the 1600’s to escape poverty and religious oppression. They first relocated to Ireland and then to America in the 1700s. They left their mark on the backcountry of Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. These areas are home to many Presbyterian churches established by the Scots-Irish. Many people in these areas are still very independent like their ancestors. Olaudah Equiano(1745-1797) African who was sold into slavery and bought his way out-kidnapped as a boy (age 11) from his home he was sold into slavery and sold amongst slave traders many times-he served in the Seven Years' War as a captain's boy and was then sold to a slave trader where he went to the Caribbean-from there a white colonist bought him and he eventually bought his way out of slavery-he went to England to live and published a book about slavery and his experiences-his message was widespread and helped to inspire the abolition of slavery.Stono RebellionThe most serious slave rebellion in the...
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...everywhere started to progress rapidly. The two dominant regions the North and South, looked like it would be bearable to work with each other and be able to discuss any problems with healthy debates. However as time progressed toward the 1860s, the North and South proved to differentiate among each other with few similarities. Economically, the North was based on manufacturing while the South was rural based. Socially, the North was generally anti-slavery while the South was pro-slavery. And lastly, politically, we see the return of the two party system. As for the comparisons, in the early nineteenth century, there was an explosion of economic, industrial and urban growth in most of the northern states. The development in the north was qualitative as well as quantitative growth, but growth in the southern states wasn't as dramatic, as it had more “intensive economic growth without any important changes in economic structures or techniques”, leading to the economic alienation of the southern states prior to the Civil War. Either way their growth was both naturally and rapidly. It is for these obvious and more important differences that we see at the end of the 1850s and the beginning of the 1860s such a divergence between these two regions which eventually lead to the civil war. After the United States gained its independence it was heavily dependent on other countries for manufactured goods. However, this changed as the United States attempted to become more independent on manufactured...
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...American ship owners, farmers and anglers equally benefited from slavery. Slavery played a fundamental role in the escalation of moneymaking capitalism in the colonies (Harms p.1). The plantations from West Indies formed the largest market for American fish, oat, corn, flour, lumber peas, beans, and horses. New Englanders did not drag behind as they distilled molasses produced by slaves in the French and Dutch West Indies into rum. Most Africans were captured and sold to America to work as slaves. The trans-Saharan trade provided enslaved African labor work on sugar plantations in the Mediterranean (Pattison p.1). These slaves were very competent in their work, and this led to Brazil dominating in the production of sugarcane in 16th and 17th centuries. This led to the establishment of the earliest large-scale manufacturing industries to enhance conversion of sugarcane juice into sugar, molasses, rum as well as alcoholic beverages for the triangular trade. Slavery led to the success of many economic activities in the United States. For instance, the cotton plantation was part of the regional economy of the American South. In 1830, cotton was the most produced crop in the United States. U.S was competing for economic...
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