Essay On The South And Slavery 1800-1600

Chapter 11: The South and Slavery, 1800-1600

1. Explain the various factors that made the South distinct from the rest of the United States during the early nineteenth century. The South continued to remain an area known for being rural and focusing on agricultural within the first half of the nineteenth century and the rest of the world focusing on the urban industrial development. As the South’s climate was warm and humid, this became great for the commercial crops that were profitable, such as tobacco, cotton, indigo, and sugar cranes. The cash crops ended up turning the plantations into a system that was ran on large commercial agriculture and its dependence on enslaved labor. A lot of the white individuals that were located within the South were not slave owners, however they supported “peculiar institution”, which was a phrase used in place for slavery. This assisted with the whites not having to utilize the word slavery but still believing and sharing that slavery is what made the South extremely unique. The whites during …show more content…
Slaves were nothing more but property and all of the slaves were able to be solved, raped, and whipped, depending on what their master wanted. Slaves didn’t have the opportunity to be able to leave when they wanted to leave and they had to have had permission before doing so. If slaves did what they wanted to do, they suffered severe consequences. All of the slaves across the world, were referenced as “field hands”, which consisted of men, women, and children who were organized into work gangs. Most of the African Americans were slave, but there was a small amount who were free. A lot of the blacks who were free, lived and worked in the cities. Although it stated they were free, they still had an unknown social status between slavery and freedom. They also had to pay annual tax and sadly they weren’t able to leave the