Slavery In The South Research Paper

Introduction - When I think about Slavery, I think about black people and the south, but there is a whole other side to the story of Slavery called the North.In 1860, 476,00 blacks were free. 221,000 of them lived in the North. How Free Were Free Blacks In The North. Blacks in the North were somewhat free in the years just before the Civil War.This can be shown by looking at the three areas of society: Political, Social, and Economical.

Between 1800 and 1865, slaves lived in the Southern States and worked in the tobacco, wheat, rice, corn and cotton plantations. Essentially, slavery was an economic institution with far-reaching benefits to slaveholders, since the value of slave labor was considerably more than the cost of their maintenance. Demands for democratization, respect for human dignity and American Civil War presented a major turning point in the institution of slavery as farmers turned to lesser labor-intensive production methods such as the use of Eli Whitney 's Cotton Gin. This paper analyzes different ways in which institution of Slavery affected the development of American South between 1800 & 1865, and the lives of people living in the region. In doing so the paper considers economic, political, social and cultural implications of the institution.

Slavery began when the state’s economy began to expand and become more firmly entrenched. Farmeers found that using slaves were more profitable, and those who were able to afford slaves; bought them to work on big plantations. Slaves were also forced to work in the manufacturing labor force, especially the iron industry. By the 1860’s, slaves made up twenty-five percent of Tennessee’s population. With most of the state’s wealth in the land, the production of wheat, tobacco, corn, and cotton grew rapidly during that time period.

In this chapter, we learned about slavery. After the war of 1812, Isaac Hopper, Robert Vaux, and Benjamin Lundy was in a religious group’s that pressing for legal abolition nationwide using the strategy of moral suasion (page 21). They try to shame the slave owner to manumitting the slave, and convince the northern people to abolition with the god for America. They wanted to pass gradual emancipation laws in the south. In addition, they wanted to be educated in preparation before freedom be emancipated (page 21). The big consider was how to accomplished gradualism. One option was, they could pass state laws at a later date, for example, foreign slave trade clause in the united constitution. The second option, slave children who were born after a certain

Southern states consisted of mostly plantations, growing crops and materials needed for daily life. Tobacco, cotton, rice and sugar were the major cash crops that plantations produced. In 1815, cotton was the number one, highest grossing crop produced by the south. The crops were grown, harvested and in some cases processed all in the same location. If a plantation needed to ship a product, for many years wagon was the method of choice. Ships were used to export products. The south had relied on a world market to export products and turn a profit.

Throughout the history of our United States, many factors have contributed to the ultimate growth and development of the magnitude of our present-day economy. None, however, could be the compared to the size of the impact attributed to the institution of slavery in the Antebellum South during the 1800’s. And although slavery is considered today to be “the most inhumane institution,” there is no denying the fact that its existence substantially benefitted the prosperity of the American economy during the time of its practice. The account of one man during this time, a slave, shows us another glimpse into the period which was so heavily influenced by slavery and another point of view from which we can interpret and hope to use in order to understand

During the reconstruction ex-slaves were trying to find their true definition of freedom. After spending hundreds of years in slavery, African Americans had become more dependent on their slave owners after the signing of the emancipation proclamation that freed slaves in the south on January 1st 1863. After the freeing slaves didn't know what to really do with themselves having all the family they've ever had on the plantation and No land to raise their families on so, the slave owners offered them their homes on the plantation and maybe a few pennies a day earned for the task that was previously assigned to them during slavery, but this isn't freedom. After the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 all slaves in the South were supposed to be

In a time where research was not a primary source of knowledge, most physicians and slave owners were forced to create their own their own practices based on observations. Throughout the Antebellum South, many slaveowners learned of the immunities and adaptations to the environment that their slaves possessed. However, due to the poor living conditions in the slave homes, many families were susceptible to parasites and other diseases. Often, these diseases were treated by other slaves in their family, but in other cases their owners called a white doctor to care for them (Black Health on the Plantation: Owners, the Enslaved, and Physicians). Before a doctor was called, the slaves would often use herbal remedies or religious prayers

You would think that a society which takes up an institution as immoral and barbaric as slavery would benefit from it on the whole, but that is not the case with the American South. The only people who benefited from slavery were the top 3% of Southern society. For the rest of the people the institution of slavery would prevent them from gaining an education, proper literacy, wealth, and movement up the social ladder. If viewed as an independent nation the South was a socially stagnant aristocracy, extremely dependant on foreign trade , had fairly weak industry, and finally had a small population compared to the North. Perhaps the greatest tragedy was that all those confederate soldiers died for a cause that kept them poor. This is not

Antebellum slavery was an economic institution but it was more social and cultural because of the power it gave the white population during the antebellum era. Slavery was shown as social and cultural in the violent sadism exemplified by the slave masters/mistresses and overseers, slaves were dehumanized and seen as inferior because of their race, and in the way that religion was a tool used to not only justify slavery but also to train the enslaved. During the antebellum period, seeing slaves be tortured or beaten/punished was a common thing. In Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Narrative of the life OF Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Douglass detailed many different accounts of horrible brutality against enslaved people.

It's hard to believe that there was a time in American history where human beings had no rights, were considered possessions, and could be treated in the most horrific ways and then be prosecuted for being pushed to the limit where they break down and do terrible thing they wouldn't naturally do just because of their skin color, ethnicity or gender. By The time of the mid-1800's slavery in the northern states seemed to have been getting better not to say the same for the south. Slavery was still a big part in the southern state; you had indentured servants and field workers. Each was having their own task given by their master. However, slaves were not just used for field work or helping out with crops or around the yard. White men would also get woman slaves to be a "wife

In the Southern states, Slaves would work to make cotton in Plantation field's, they had no rights to anything and there only job was only to work, the suffering from working hard led to fear because the women would be raped by their Master's and the men would have to leave their children and wife to work on plantations or who could plow their fields, no slaves that were women and men had no freedom, during the time as being a slave, the title that have focused on was the religion they had thought that Christianity ''became a hope and resistance'' on page 433. Through the days of becoming a slave man have resisted, some have escaped, and some have done, not survive quickly enough, the legalization of slavery in the southern states made a big impact for African- Americans because many were enslaved to be taken away from their families and so led to white people as their ''Masters'' many women that were enslaved have been raped and used to work on the plantation field and also plow the field.

Farming crops through the use of slaves (slaves would do all the work without any pay). This idea was present in the south where agriculture was the main source of income due to geography. Slaves provided free labor so plantation owners could gain more profit. While unjust (Separation of families through trade; long, backbreaking work; poor treatment by owners; small rations; whippings and other cruel punishments), this drove the nation forward economically, as factories (textile industry) in the north depended on the farming of the cash-crop cotton in the south. Slavery quickened the process of farming and increased production of mainly cotton for the whole nation. This

So many people wanted slaves, especially in the South. They had more farms than they could handle on their own. Northern owners wanted them because they would have to do less work. Very few owners treated their slaves nicely and paid them to do work around the house. They would not be treated like family but would get treated a whole lot better than your “typical slave.” Those kinds of circumstances occurred more in the Northern states than the Southern states.

South Carolina was one of other numerous states in United States of America that supported slavery. Many citizens that lived in southern states during this time supported slavery because that was what their economy was based on. Plantation owners bought the slaves either from at an auction or from other plantation owners. Slaves were first brought over to America because the English settlers did not know how to produce the crop rice but West Africans did. Since the West Africans knew how to produce rice they were brought to the Americans and sold to plantation owners (“African Slaves on South Carolina Plantations”).