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Title: Slavery


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Slavery
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King Cotton-South is a major supplier of cotton
for the world. The North would not dare declare
war on King CottonStaple Crop- a crop produced
in mass amounts of quantity to sell for a profit
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Cotton-required lots of labor for picking and
separating seeds
Cotton gin- increased demand for cotton
Cotton exhausts the land of its nutrients, so
necessary to constantly look for new
land Manifest Destiny-new land for South
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Other Staple crops
  • Sugar (high profits) most demanding labor in
    South, slaves worked 18hr days
  • Rice (high profit) required large of slaves,
    very dangerous because grew in swamps, malaria
    and snake bites were deadly
  • Slavery itself became a staple crop and produced
    high profits. Slave owners encouraged slaves to
    have children to increase their wealth

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Middle Passage
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Economics of Slavery
  • In the late 1700s Many farmers were shifting
    from tobacco and cotton to grain crops because
    they required less labor.
  • 1793 Cotton Gin Eli Whitney
  • This single event stopped any downward trend in
    the slave labor trade.
  • Soon thousands of would-be cotton farmers
    poured into the South

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Economics of Slavery
  • Price for a black male, 20 years old
  • 700 - 1650 the average is 1200
  • Price for a child slave 875 average
  • Price for a black female, 20 years old
  • 600 - 1550 the average 1100
  • Average rate of return 6-8
  • Work expectancy 30 years x 7 210
  • Capital return in industry in the North was 6

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Slave Auction
New Orleans and Richmond had the most slave
auctions
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Class System of Slaves
  • Skilled craftsmen
  • House servants
  • Overseer
  • Slave Driver
  • Field hand

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Slave Owners
  • One out of 4 southern farmers owned slaves
  • 75 of white southerners did not own any slaves
    yet they held the wealth and power in the
    community
  • Of the 25 who owned slaves
  • 1 owned 100 or more slaves
  • 10 owned 20 to 99 slaves
  • 39 owned 5 to 19 slaves
  • 50 owned 1 to 4 slaves

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Slave Population
  • 1790 700,000
  • 1850 3,200,000
  • 1860 4,000,000
  • Slave trade ends in 1808

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Abolition
  • The movement to abolish or end slavery
  • Slavery ends in the north in early 1800s
  • Religious and reform movements give new life to
    antislavery movements
  • First movement aimed at relocating slaves in
    Liberia

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