The Role Of Southern Slavery In New Orleans

After the war of 1812, The Treaty of Ghent was signed and in 1814 the United States from economically unchained from the bully that was Great Britain. Lands that were once occupied by the British redcoats were now being threatened by famous American war heroes. Men like Andrew Jackson, and those who followed him in his raid on the redcoats. The men who made up the raid were not average white male militants but was a melting pot of American peoples. The image I gain in my head while reading about the events and how people of different races, languages, even slaves joined together as one to defeat the British from gaining important lands in New Orleans with means to take over more of the United States, particularly the Mississipi.

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Southern power holders were convinced that the profit was important and without slave labor there would be no profit for other manufacturers or buyers. "South Carolina’s James H. Hammond warned the North: “You dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is King.” (Tindall & Shi, Kindle Page 366) The masters, or slave owners were proud and defiant of the abolitionist movement but were not entirely secure in their safety. Southern slave owners were frightened of slave …show more content…
In the end of the event several slaves were killed, some that were not involved in the slaughtering of men women and children. (Tindall & Shi, Kindle Page 380) This new spread and with it fear crept into the minds of slave owners that were far out numbered by the slaves they owned. There were various ways that enslaved people acted out against slavery and supported abolition. One of many ways that they escaped enslavement was the underground railroad. The text defines this as a "vast system of secret routes and safe stopping places that concealed runaways and spirited them to freedom..." (Tindall & Shi, Kindle Page