CHAPTER 12: THE OLD SOUTH AND SLAVERY IDENTIFICATION Internal slave trade: the profitability of cotton and sugar increased‚ so did the value of slaves throughout the entire region. This encouraged the internal slave trade from the upper to the lower south. Task system vs. gang system: task system is where slaves had a daily or weekly quota of tasks to complete. Gang system is the division of labor within slavery on a plantation. African Methodist Episcopal Church: predominantly African-American Methodist
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had been divided into the North and South. Even though both the North and South were experiencing and working on becoming independent from outside influences like the British‚ there were changes that not both were existing in their colonies but there were some changes that were occurring in both. For example‚ economics‚ religion‚ government‚ and politics shared some similarities but also some differences did occur as well. Economically the North and the South were similar in a few ways. “Squatting
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Yes‚ the lower South should be able to secede peacefully. As a Southern Democrat‚ I believe that it is not only the right of the lower South states to secede‚ but secession is needed now. This secession is very important to the development of the lower South. The Constitution gives states’ rights‚ and just because the lower South is not in 100% agreement with the Northern states‚ that does not mean that our rights can be taken away (page 336 in our book). Now‚ let’s fast forward to President Taylor’s
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There are plenty of different ways people lived in the North and South. They had multiple differences such as geography. There’s not many differences in geography than their ways of transportation. As well as their ways of keeping and controlling a society. They all lived quite differently. The differences in their geography aren’t multiple. The North had fertile and coastal plains which helped them with farming. It also would help with a supply of more food. They also had large and thick forests
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By 1830‚ slavery was primarily located in the South‚ where it existed in many different forms. African Americans were enslaved on small farms‚ large plantations‚ in cities and towns‚ inside homes‚ out in the fields‚ and in industry and transportation. Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces‚ the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property‚ and they were property because they were black. Their status as property was enforced by violence--actual or threatened.
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Between 1492 and 1763 the colonies were growing and improving their conditions from before when they had lived in Britain. Although the colonist all came for a similar reason of escaping religious persecution and had the same idea when it came to organizing their colony‚ they did however have a difference in class organization and how they were to go about in their trading and farming economy. The south and the north may have been comparable but they were also two totally diverse colonies at the
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Dakota Clements Prof. Every HIST-1210-002 6 November 2014 Slavery in America Slavery has played an important role in American life today. When North America was first colonized by Europeans‚ the land was vast‚ the work was tough‚ and the availability of manual labor was hard to find. White servants paid for their passage across the ocean from Europe to the New World through indentured labor‚ but did not solve the problem. In the early stages of the seventeenth century‚ a Dutch ship loaded
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willing to learn from their mistakes‚ for the sake that they will be able to move on forward from what they learned. The North and the south are like a teacher and student‚ the North can teach the South as a student how lead the reconstruction era for it to become successful however‚ its up to the South as the student to see what they think is best. As so the South did act foolish and led to many missed out opportunities for its lands to become successful with allowing the blacks to live as an everyday
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In post 1820’s the Southern regions of America diffused free labor‚ cotton trade‚ and plantation farms towards the westward expansion. Land development denoted a greater acceptance of slavery and offered large profits for those who involved in the trade. This lead to the Southern region’s prominent political presence and the beginning of a slave society. An integral element to the Southern American culture. By 1830 cotton fields expanded from the Atlantic seaboard to Texas. Consequently‚ cotton
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Life in the South was based on an agrarian system which contrasted from the industrialized style of the North in the 1800s. The rural characteristics of the South were evident as 84% of it’s labor force was dependent on agriculture and it lacked in urban development. Therefore the Southern economy was based on plantation production‚ a laborious activity and time consuming effort. This made it crucial to have a enormous number of working force on demand‚ ready to initialize the work. Therefore Southern
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