Slavery in the pre-Civil War South: a harsh or benevolent system?
By Benen Dykstra
In the history of the United States the enslavement of African American people lasted from 1619 the thesis I intend to prove in this paper is that although the system of slavery in the Southern United States was a harsh system it was beneficial to the development of the Southern economy. Before the Civil War in 1861 slavery was a very common practice is states such as Kentucky or Alabama. Southern farmers produced cotton and traded it with the northern regions of the United. With the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 the need for slave labour expanded and on some farms a master could own as much as 50 slaves. The growth of cotton in the South made of more …show more content…
Although the production of cotton was a major factor in the importation of slaves to the south slave labourers were required to do many other tasks such as work as tobacco planters, working as a black smiths, being a driver, waiter and any other job a white person could do if he or she put effort into complete the job. www.desire2learn.com In the book “American Uprising” Destrehan an 1811 slave owner in New Orleans Louisiana believed that if there was no slavery what so ever all of the progress that had been made in the last one-hundred years would be destroyed and slaves were the very foundation of the frontier world. I find this thought to be a little over dramatic because in my opinion if you want to make progress instead of forcing people to do the work for you, you should either pay your employees for their services or you should get off your butt and do the work …show more content…
The United States might not have been able to learn about the African culture unless the African people decided to sail to the United States. Most importantly if their mighty not have been a Civil War between the northern and southern United States since slavery was the main issue, but in my opinion there was still a fifty, fifty chance of that happening because both sides of the United States wanted to run the country a different way. But it might not have occurred because the south spent so much money on their anti-federalist campaign. But unless someone invents a time machine and changes the past who is to say how things would have turned out? One thing is for certain if pre civil war slavery in the southern United States never existed the world as we know it would be very
By Benen Dykstra
In the history of the United States the enslavement of African American people lasted from 1619 the thesis I intend to prove in this paper is that although the system of slavery in the Southern United States was a harsh system it was beneficial to the development of the Southern economy. Before the Civil War in 1861 slavery was a very common practice is states such as Kentucky or Alabama. Southern farmers produced cotton and traded it with the northern regions of the United. With the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 the need for slave labour expanded and on some farms a master could own as much as 50 slaves. The growth of cotton in the South made of more …show more content…
Although the production of cotton was a major factor in the importation of slaves to the south slave labourers were required to do many other tasks such as work as tobacco planters, working as a black smiths, being a driver, waiter and any other job a white person could do if he or she put effort into complete the job. www.desire2learn.com In the book “American Uprising” Destrehan an 1811 slave owner in New Orleans Louisiana believed that if there was no slavery what so ever all of the progress that had been made in the last one-hundred years would be destroyed and slaves were the very foundation of the frontier world. I find this thought to be a little over dramatic because in my opinion if you want to make progress instead of forcing people to do the work for you, you should either pay your employees for their services or you should get off your butt and do the work …show more content…
The United States might not have been able to learn about the African culture unless the African people decided to sail to the United States. Most importantly if their mighty not have been a Civil War between the northern and southern United States since slavery was the main issue, but in my opinion there was still a fifty, fifty chance of that happening because both sides of the United States wanted to run the country a different way. But it might not have occurred because the south spent so much money on their anti-federalist campaign. But unless someone invents a time machine and changes the past who is to say how things would have turned out? One thing is for certain if pre civil war slavery in the southern United States never existed the world as we know it would be very