The definition of slavery is a person held in servitude as the chattel of another, or one that is completely passive to a dominating influence. Slavery emphasizes the component of complete ownership and control by the person whom the slave is owned. In this paper the topic is “How slavery impacted the development of the United States between 1787 and 1840” and the lasting impact it has made. Edmund Randolph stated that slaves were “not constituent members of our society (Foner 275).” What this simplifies to is that slaves weren’t considered equal to the lives of the white man. During the time period of 1787 to 1840 there were abolitionists who fought for slave rights and helped slaves enjoy some of the same legal rights as whites. These rights
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The West became “the home of regional cultures very much like those the immigrants had left behind (Foner 325)”. Therefore the north was adapting new changes while the south remained a plantation-based society. “Historians estimate one million slaves were shifted from the older slave states to the Deep South between 1800 and 1860 (Foner 327)”. Most of the slaves were a part of the slave trade and some moved with their owners. The cotton gin allowed the separation of the seeds from the cotton to become fairly simple and fast. The demand for cotton increased and new lands opened in the West. The Cotton Gin “revolutionized American Slavery”. The book states that many expected slavery to fade out but because of this Cotton Gin, slavery came back in a more powerful way. Cotton plantations spread to the South and was a significant factor in the reopening of the African slave trade. Before the invention of the Cotton Gin (1793) five million pounds of cotton were produced after the invention it had grown to 170 million pounds (1820). Though the cotton gin caused a rise in the slave trade there were 220,000 free blacks living in the North, though they lived in the “poorest, unhealthiest sections of cities like New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati (Foner 348)” they were free. They face attacks and destruction of their homes and businesses. Through these hard times the faith of the African Americans was tested but not lost. The A.M.E church founded by Sir. Richard Allen played a pivotal role in keeping their spirits high. During this time Thaddeus Stevens “became a leader in the drive for equal rights for African Americans after the Civil War (Foner 363)”. By the year 1860 African-Americans could vote on the same issues as white in five New England
The West became “the home of regional cultures very much like those the immigrants had left behind (Foner 325)”. Therefore the north was adapting new changes while the south remained a plantation-based society. “Historians estimate one million slaves were shifted from the older slave states to the Deep South between 1800 and 1860 (Foner 327)”. Most of the slaves were a part of the slave trade and some moved with their owners. The cotton gin allowed the separation of the seeds from the cotton to become fairly simple and fast. The demand for cotton increased and new lands opened in the West. The Cotton Gin “revolutionized American Slavery”. The book states that many expected slavery to fade out but because of this Cotton Gin, slavery came back in a more powerful way. Cotton plantations spread to the South and was a significant factor in the reopening of the African slave trade. Before the invention of the Cotton Gin (1793) five million pounds of cotton were produced after the invention it had grown to 170 million pounds (1820). Though the cotton gin caused a rise in the slave trade there were 220,000 free blacks living in the North, though they lived in the “poorest, unhealthiest sections of cities like New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati (Foner 348)” they were free. They face attacks and destruction of their homes and businesses. Through these hard times the faith of the African Americans was tested but not lost. The A.M.E church founded by Sir. Richard Allen played a pivotal role in keeping their spirits high. During this time Thaddeus Stevens “became a leader in the drive for equal rights for African Americans after the Civil War (Foner 363)”. By the year 1860 African-Americans could vote on the same issues as white in five New England