Response To Syllabus

African slavery became such a prominent part of the American identity and became integral for the South. Despite slavery completely going against the ideals of freedom and equality that America was created on, the South fought viciously to maintain their system of African slavery. This will later lead to a Civil

Instead, the South relied heavenly on Slaves to do the labor of picking cotton and the Northerners’ exportation of manufactured machinery to them. The climate in the south was perfect for their most valuable export; cotton, so growing them was easy. As the southerners bought bigger plantations for the growth of cotton, the worse slavery had grown. Therefore, the southerners had this social construct that the slaves were their biggest possessions because of the 4th highest ranking they had on income, they also had a mindset that the slaves were like family, and believed Africans needed the help of white men. The grossing on their beliefs justified slavery in the South, although much of abolitionists in the North had a different opinion on the matter. Northerners believed slavery was uncivilized and deprived from the equality the constitution had stated; however, the daily lives of the Southerners treating the slaves like property didn’t change at all.

In the south, for social, they still had problems with race. New laws made it hard for southern African Americans to enjoy the improvements of transportation. Politically, there were laws that allowed segregation and made it really hard for African Americans to enjoy their free life. economically, although the south remained mostly agricultural the south began to develop timber industries, also because there main source of profit was slaved, after slavery was abolished that took away a lot of the South’s major income, also iron and coal deposits in the southern Appalachian mountains gave rise to steel production in Alabama.

Slavery, in the South and as well in the North, played a huge role of the culture of their societies. The North had a general belief in abolitionism, while the South opposed that idea. All the economic reasons led to the cultural differences. The South viewed slavery as a necessity to their economy. The North believed it was wrong to own a human being. The South contradicted this idea with the North’s use of cheap labor in its factories.

Slavery was essentially an institution in America in the 18th and 19th centuries. The southern states would rely largely on slavery for their agriculture such as the cultivating and tending of their crops. Many Americans of the time viewed blacks as primitive savages who were not worthy of equality and freedom. It is hard for people of today to understand how the

When black slavery first started in the United States, all the slaves were being imported from Africa. Slowly overtime slaves were being born in the United States instead of solely being brought from Africa. The birth rate of the slaves was not high enough to depend on the reproduction of slaves in the south though. This resulted in a combination of both American-born slaves and African-born slaves on plantations. Eventually, there was a division between the two groups of slaves in the Southern part of the United States.

Slavery a practise that took absolute freedom away from African people for over 500 sometimes it is even referred to as the ‘African Holocaust’ because the estimated lives lost because of the slave trade is thought to be up to 100 million. And in 1691 this hideous practise was introduced to America and continued for another 250 years and it was only in the 18th century that America began to question the morality of slavery. This lead to a divide in the American people you were either pro or anti slavery. Due to geography Southern states benefited much more from slavery than Northern states did because they had the environment the could sustain plantations and their population was lower and less condensed. Northern states however due of the advent of industrialism did not need or benefit economically from slavery and because of higher importance placed on education and immigration there was a growing diversity of cultures and people so they were more aware of the moral issues involved with a practise like slavery. Another factor that contributed to the growing resentment of slavery in the North was a paradoxical one, because the South benefited so much economically for slavery where little to no labour skills were needed it began to affect the American economy as a whole as it limited the growth of the US economy. Work ethic was undermined and slavery itself only was only beneficial to the US in the short term and in hindsight it is easy to see that it actually stunted the US

The issue of slavery has been in infamous part of American history since it first started in the 1600’s in Jamestown, Virginia. During the colonial era, white male landowners needed help on their land taking care of crops, so they would purchase the African slaves after they arrived by boat and have them work the land as well as other tasks that needed to be done such as tending to

Slavery originally started in Latin America and the West Indies by the French, Spanish, and Portuguese after the conquest, to replace the depopulated labor of the Indigenous people. Shortly after, slavery became a profitable enterprise for the capitalistic driven United States. Some of the principal laws and systems of slavery were the same in both regions, but others were later changed. It brought about many changes, with respect to African-Americans and black culture. Those changes had long lasting effects, not only on how blacks view and are viewed in society, but also on how the destruction of our culture influenced our current life-style today in United States and

On most of the large farms in the South, it was impossible to work the crops without a large labor force. The North depended on immigrants as a cheap labor force in their industrial mills as the South depended on slaves.

Through the sin of slavery blacks was oppressed and abuse. Slave’s life experiences was a life of embed controversy because of their skin color. White’s narrow minded moralistic psychological state was bases on self-greed, capitalism, hate, and oppression. Because of skin of blacks, whites form system of slavery that was beneficial because they were weak and inadequate to perform. African and their descents, blacks were cheated from their given rights, decreed by God to enjoy their own life desires and fulfillments to pursuit their own life self-gratifications. The South was fundamental was form through slave’s, whites unjust and cruel exercise of white’s authority. The south succeed in greed in every aspect of using slavery in the south by selling slaves and renting blacks out for their services and free skilled labor. In south slaves also help to obtain their freedom by serving in the military that was also implemented in the South. Slavery fought beside whites defending the southern colonies. Many slave die trying gain their freedom through the war. In the military in the south they invoked and evoked slave rights to served and also separated military blacks squad. Slaves enjoined all over the land to gain freedom through fighting for their country. They also served as field and instrumental drum men and also help with the political aspect process toward the abolishment of slavery. In

The first half of the ninetieth century is a time when developments started to form the sectionalism between the North and the South. The North, as well as the South, had slavery at the start of colonization, but when the industrial revolution was introduced into the North, their attitudes about slavery, along with the style of labor, started to change. Instead of slavery, they advocated for free labor, which in return displeased the South who still practiced the slavery system and relied heavily on it. This difference can be seen regionally, with the North having factories and industrial means of producing the products they needed and sold, while the South relied on agriculture as their means of production, and the land consisted mostly of plantations that was essential for maintaing slavery. As one can guess, this caused great conflicts, especially when

When referring to the days of slavery, it is often assumed that the south was the sole force behind its continuance. However there were many factors which lead southerners as well as some in the north to quietly accept slavery as a good thing. John Calhoun declared in 1837 “Many in the South once believed that [slavery] was a moral and political evil…That folly and delusion are gone; we see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world” (p. 345). This statement was justified by various reasons. There was the fundamental belief that Africans were inferior to their white counterparts. Many saw the slave population as a labor force that

South Carolina owned more black slaves than other places. South Carolina was called “Negro country”. Children slaves of South Carolina died before reaching the age of 16. White owners would try to erase their black slaves identities so, they would be more productive. Little did we forget we as African-Americans built this country by providing (roads, bridges, factories, farms, towns, and cities). We as blacks even created our own culture that whites could never touch nor take away. Our African-American food created a big influence on food which made food better and flowed through the Atlantic world. Not only food were being spreaded but, ideas about music, dance, religion, and freedom.

Many years succeeding the slavery in Han China and Imperial Rome, slavery was became a huge element in the southern part of the United States in States like Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.