Southerner's Impact On Slavery

Throughout history slavery has played a major role on our country. It has shaped culture, racism, and our country coming together as a whole. In the upcoming paragraphs I will describe their journey to the new world and harsh trip throughout the middle passage. Also, I will explain in detail about how their knowledge helped southern colonies grow and succeed.

During the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the African slaves didn’t just concede and give up their hopes for freedom. Instead, they tried to fight back, doing as much as they can to sabotage the Americans/Europeans, as well as trying to resist as much as they possibly could; with the knowledge that they would never be able to achieve freedom or get back to their home country. The African slaves’ resistance took many forms, some of which include: resisting capture/imprisonment, attack slave ships, form revolts against slavery, pretending as if they were sick, breaking tools, not cooperating, and fighting to free themselves and fellow brethren. This can be seen in source PORTCITIES Bristol 2017 Black resistance against slavery (2017, Secondary) and source, the abolishment project: Resistance to slavery 2009. However, the Africans alone could not abolish slavery. The African slaves didn’t stand alone as some very brave and heroic individuals helped the Africans achieve freedom. One of these many individuals was Harriet Tubman. Source 6 Sylvester, M 1998, ‘The Underground Railroad (1998, Secondary) goes to great lengths explaining how Harriet Tubman was one of the most famous, profound and successful conductors. Harriet Tubman was also a runaway slave and abolitionist who guided around 300 runaways to freedom and losing none of the African slaves she guided. The routes they took would be named ‘The Underground Railroad’, however, the name can be misleading as it was not an

The growth in cotton and crops production did not cause the change in economic system, but caused the increase in demand in slaves. Cotton boom required more production, and more production required more labor that meant more slaves. The number of slaves increased from 700.000 in 1790 to more than 1,5 million by 1820. For Southern states the idea of abolition was something incredible and impossible. Southern planters saw slavery as the only way of labor organization for black people. They believed that the slavery was the only conditions in which blacks could exist and that is why they could not be freed - they did not fit for freedom. Slaves were considered as property and therefore could not be treated as free people. For Southern planters the violence, both physical and sexual, was the norms of morality, they believed that as soon as slaves are property they could not have feelings and emotions and all what blacks need was to be feed, dressed, and have shelter. Since Southern planters gave this basics to slaves they thought that slaves should be happy and

Cotton became one of, if not the most, profitable crop to grow. Along with the cotton gin’s invention, mass-production became easily accessible, however it required immense labor to achieve it, which of course, was completed by slave labor. This connection is likely the very reason that slavery became such a prominent issue. Before the creation of the cotton gin, rice and tobacco were the staple crops of the region. Many believe that if not for the rapid expansion of the cotton industry, the need for slave labor would have never grown to the level it did, and, at the very least, conflict between the North and South may have never

Slaves play a major roles in shaping the south. For obvious reason southern society took slavery to be a critical factor in economic and social identity. Slaves was the ultimate source of the south finances, through crops, marketing, trade monopolies slavery and industry productions. Slavery labor was excessive and slavery produce, one hundred percent return on of capital profits for south. The enforce labor works of slave was free and made easy for southern society obtain their status. Through their expropriation of slave distribution a great deal of southern land proprietor, industrial, business and the society flowing exchange industry could withstand. (Cobb, 2015) A great deal of farm and business and business dispensing slaves labor because they were consider property and did free labor service without

Once Southerners believed they were losing control and possible ability to spread slavery in the United States, they broke away from the Union. In 1861 elite slaveholders did not think their interests could be met, causing them to launch the confederacy. They did not care about only controlling the African Americans; at this point they were out for power, for blood. They lost their grip on the federal government after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, which caused the power of national state no longer able to be used as a defense to strengthen slavery, but now a weapon to undermine it. They advocated the central importance of slavery and tried to make it seem as if the slavery was the reason for the southern states succession, while

Life as a slave was not easy or comfortable. It was full of poor living

Have you ever wondered about our sixteenth president 's life,. That is why i decided to do my project on his life and impact on the civil war and slavery. His life started in the quiet town of Hodgenville, Kentucky, on that cold winter morning of February 12, 1809. He lived there from the time he was born till he was around seven years old, then he and his family moved to Indiana, there his family owned a farm which he worked on by day. At night or whenever he could, he would read even without much education. During this time in Indiana his mother died, he was ten years old.

In the Confederacy, African-Americans are still slaves and they serve mostly in labor positions. Although, most slaves that serve are impressed as a slave labor force, others are brought by their masters to tend to their master’s needs. In some cases, these servants are entrusted with a masters personal affects if he is killed, and he is to return them to his family. There are several reports of servants or slaves that took their masters spot on the battlefield and were soon adopted into the regiment. Records also show us men that serve or served as color-bearers in militia units. Tens of thousands have and are serving, willingly or otherwise.

The world just then was developing an almost limitless appetite for cotton, and in the deep South enormous quantities of cotton could be raised cheaply with slave labor. Export figures show what happened. In 1800 the United States had exported $5,000,000 worth of cotton 7 per cent of the nations total exports. By 1810 this figure had tripled, by 1840 it had risen to 63,000,000, and by 1860 cotton exports were worth $191,000,000 57 per cent of the value of all American exports. The South had become a cotton empire nearly four million slaves were employed, and slavery looked like an absolutely essential element in Southern prosperity. But if slavery paid it left men with uneasy consciences. This unease became most obvious in the North, where a man who demanded the abolition of slavery could comfort himself with the reflection that the financial loss which abolition would entail would, after all, be borne by somebody else his neighbor to the

“The impact of slavery on the South’s social system, value system, and political system. Despite the distance between slave-owners and non-slave-owners, the South for a variety of reasons had been relatively free of class conflict. But between 1830 and 1860, the hardening of class lines and the widening of the gap between rich and poor began to create more tension between slaveholders and non-slaveholders, tension evidenced in white workers’ protests and in the publication of The Impending Crisis in 1857.” (People and Communities in a Slave Society: The South, 1830–1860, n.d)

Life as a slave was horrible they had to go through many things. They had to wake up early to start working and if they didn’t finish their work they were either killed or hurt. The slave holders never were allowed the slaves to leave or stop working unless they told them to. They were treated like dogs, creatures, and not as people, they received 1 penny a day and for their freedom they had to pay a hundred dollars. And

Enslaved people faced constant uncertainty danger in their life. American law in the early 1800s did not protect enslaved families. At any time, a husband or wife could be sold to a different owner, or a slaveholder’s death could lead to the breakup of an enslaved family. (pg 433) Slave Life was very much different than an ordinary white family, they constantly had to fight for survival each day and had to keep close with their families as much as they could because they never knew when

The invention of the cotton gin facilitated a need for more slaves as the production of cotton expanded. The fertile new land acquired along Gulf Coast drove the Southerners into dropping tobacco farming in Virginia and Carolinas as the first concentration shift to farming cotton in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The shift was due to the booming of textile industries in the North and across the Atlantic. By 1961, cotton farming had placed the US in a top position economically, since it accounted for two-thirds of the U.S. exports. However, the economic boost changed the Southerners’ attitude towards slavery. According to Bartlett (1993), Congressman Calhoun defended slavery referring it as a necessary evil and pure light. Most Southerners believed that the Northern industrial wage slavery was worse than their

The daily life of a slave was incredibly challenging to say the least. Slaves, particularly the ones who worked in the field, worked literally all day long, from sunrise to sunset. The only ones who did not have to work those long hours were the children and the senior. As a slave they worked six days week, with Sunday and some holidays off. So this left them with little time to take care of their own families and spend quality time. Slave owners supplied their food, but it was nothing more than leftovers or scraps. They had to learn to be resourceful and add to what they were given, which was vegetables from a small garden they planted for themselves. Slave mothers had to repair the clothing that was given to them from the owner, because the clothing was not fit to be worn. The slave owners assumed that giving them the things he did was good enough, and if they wanted anything more they would have to get it on their own. The housing for the slaves was insufficient. The house was made out of sticks with dirt for the floor, nothing like the housing that is illustrated in history books and movies. With the conditions being inadequate as they were, in the winter they would feel all the cold wind with very little if anything covering the windows. Slave owners gave the slaves very little, but just enough to keep them working. The slaves were provided with bare minimum of what they need to survive, it is obvious that the slave owners did not care about their comfort, health, or