How Did Slavery Affect The South

Slavery is commonly known to exist in the south but originally started in the 1600s when the first ship brought slaves in Virginia then it spread throughout the colonies. Life as a slave is hard to explain if you weren’t a slave yourself. Frederick Douglass is a runaway slave, he escaped slavery in 1838. He wrote his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, in the 1844 and was published spring of 1845. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, he explained his life a slave and other encountered and of course everything he had witnessed while being a slave, also how slavery impacted the south. Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland and like other slaves that were born into slavery were taken away from their mothers, “It is a common custom.., to part children from their mothers at a very early age.” said Douglass. Children were not allowed to visit or see their families or
Slavery was immensely popular by the rich. Slavery only benefits those who were actually wealthy enough to own a few hundred slaves for their plantations. They didn’t need to waste their own money in paying others to do the work if they owned slaves who didn’t have a say in whether they wanted to or not. Slavery did give the economy a boost, mostly in favor of the wealthy. Not everyone could afford to own or buy a slave. Slavery did have some negative effects in the south since not everyone was wealthy enough to own slaves or own a big plantation. Small plantation owners did not really benefit from slavery. Since big plantation owners had more hand to do their work the more they produced. Compared to the small plantations who didn’t have as many hands to help they wouldn’t grow, or sell as much. Big plantations would dominate in the trade of goods in the south. That would leave the small plantation owners to try and keep up all year