Rise Of The South Summary

Slavery has been a major component of human civilization all throughout history. People turn to slavery for many reasons, such as fear of different ethnicities and fear that these new foreign people will take over land that is not theirs. The conditions under which slaves work and live varies greatly by the time and location of which the slaves lived. Slaves play a major role in their society and contribute greatly to their communities, often forming one of the largest masses of the population. Though the accuracy of the information from primary sources may be tainted with exaggeration and bias, it is easy to deduce from primary works the treatment of slaves and the working and living conditions surrounding them. According to many sources,

One of the main Economic Differeneces where that there where more trains in the north then in the south. I think that is because the southern people didn’t wont the blacks to get on trains and leave to the north or train. Another one is that more cotton factories were in the south then the north and i think this is because there were more slaves in the south then the north obvoiusly because the north didn’t have slaves. Another thing is that in Doc B they say the populations are very different from the south had 23,000,000 and the south had 8,700,000.

The region in the North was the polar opposite from the South. In document one, it provides the railroads in 1860 which mostly occur in the Northern region going east to west. This implies that transportation was needed more for the North than South, which made North self-sufficient. With the North acquiring transportation routs, it had increased in industrial production. The South was overflowing with plantations, and had eighty-eight percent of slave laborers while the North only with twelve percent shown in document two.

The economic differences between the North and South were clearly defined and distinctly divided the two regions ideologically. As shown by the various maps in Document 1, the amount of railroads in the North in 1860 far surpassed the number of those in the South, while slave density and cotton production in approximately the same year were concentrated heavily in the South. From this information it can be inferred that the North’s economy relied primarily on industry, and thus manufacturing, as opposed to the Southern economy of commercial cotton production. It can also be inferred from the maps that the South relied much more heavily on slave labor than the North, which was a major point of conflict between the two regions and significantly contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. (Doc 1).

In contrast the North and South didn’t have many fundamental differences. They both created a lot of money, and were not lacking at all, the only difference was the method in which was used to make the money. The economic diversification was similar too, as 10% of Northerners owned 68% of the wealth, and the wealth was dominated by the plantation owners, called oligarchies, as there were few free-soilers. 12% of the plantation owners owned half the slaves. This shows that there were few farmers, but the big plantations owned many slaves. Even though the North seems to be more industrial, the South also made efforts to modernise industrially, but they just lacked because of the closed opinions of the southerners. Also not many people in the North and the South owned slaves, it was more of a rare thing, and the main owners, owned a large amount of slaves. However there was a larger need for slaves in the South, because there was cheap labour force from Europe settling in the North which meant slaves were more expensive so were not deemed as important.

Life in the South and life in the North were two different places. They both had different ways of life and how they thought. Geography was one way that life was different, so they had different ways to adapt to their environment. Economy was another, the South farmed while the North has factories. The last way was transportation. The North have double the amount of railroads compared to the South.

Paternalism played a very significant role in the southern slavery system. Some examples of paternalism in slavery are: slaves being forbade from attending any type of school of church services, masters would also whip slaves to encourage them to do the behave how they should and in certain extreme conditions kill slaves. Slaves were forbade from attending from attending any type of school or church service because “They were afraid … more sense than they” (Doc 6).

Paternalism is the idea that slavery benefits African Americans because they are unable to take care of themselves. However, even if this is to be assumed true it is not because African Americans are genetically or otherwise biologically inferior to caucasians but rather that they have been manipulated to appear weaker. For example, African American slaves appeared to be unintelligent because they often spoke broken English and were illiterate. While some may have interpreted this to mean that African Americans were not intelligent enough to "speak properly," their verbal skills were a reflection of their lack of formal education. It would be asinine to presume slaves could learn these skills on their own, especially considering that it was often illegal to educate

Throughout the 19th century, the distinctions between the North and South in the United States were controversial. Prior to the Civil War, the North consisted of business owners and middle-class men. The South consisted of mostly farmers. The North was industrial, using railroads and factories. The South was agricultural, with mostly farms and plantations. The North paid their labor workers. The South used slaves. Not only did their opposing views on slavery and the separation of the two cultures, tensions arose that eventually led to one of the most gruesome wars in history.

     Between the 15 century to the 18 century slavery was very much and economic institution. The Cost factor in those times was very expensive to buy slaves from Africa. This played an important role on the upkeep and how those slaves were treated. There were free blacks who owned slaves of their own. The slaves that were bought were already slaves from the African kingdom. The slaves in the Americas had no rights over themselves and their children had no social status. Slaves who worked on the Hacienda large farms had to produced surplus for regional market places. They overseen by the Haciendado a person who ran the farm. Slavery was not partial to only Africans and Indians but at a later time Asian and Europeans too. The Indians laboring cleaning the silver oar lives were at stake from being poisoned from the mercury used to clean the silver oar.

Life in the North was different from life in the south. The first area was Transportation. The second area was Society. The last area was Economy.

One of the most striking differences between the North and the South was the climate and geography. The North’s climate was full of warm summers and cold winters; the terrain was rocky and hilly, which wasn’t good for farming. But the North did have little farms. Most of the forest was used for shipbuilding, and cities were used for trading centers. The rivers were fast and shallow which made it hard to navigate. Also in the North people used waterpower to run factories, because it was a cheap source of energy. The South was somewhat different; the climate was generally warm and sunny. The summers were long and hot, and the winters were pretty mild. Due to the South’s climate they were able to grow different crops in large amounts, unlike the North. The south had large farms, called plantations. In the South cities developed near rivers, because of rich soil which made it easier for them to farm.

that treatment, and the conditions that lead to resistance by the slaves working in their various

Most slave owners or individuals that agreed with slavery thought that Paternalism was a good thing. Paternalism to them was that they were doing to salves a favor, owning them was in the slave’s best interest, but to African American it was a different story. They felt like they had to not only depend on their salve owners, but they had to depend on them for their survival. The slaves fate where depended

Different avenues were explored to acquire the ideal labor force, by using “white, indentured labor from Europe” which made up of convicts and refugees. They weren’t effective as African enslavedso “African labor was deemed best suited due to its low cost and because it allowed for an easily distinguished servile class” (Campbell 9). Africans were brought to the Caribbean by cargo ships where they were treated inhumanely, many died because of diseases and suicide.They had to conform to being owned as someoneelse’s property; though it was foreign to them they were some resistance and management had to find ways to make plantation life bearable for the enslaved because they had means to disrupt production on the plantation.