How Did Slavery Changed The Lives Of African Americans

Within the seventeen hundreds circumstances for African American slaves were greatly changing. The slaves were now granted the ability to get married and have families.The slaves were not really considered to be enslaved anymore they were considered nearly free citizens, everything was looking up for them. The north and south had vastly different views about how the government should be ran, but more diversely was the economic struggle and the concept of slaves needing to be freed. On the northern side abolitionists made up a mass portion of the population, while in the south they were all for slavery, they saw it as a necessity and were guaranteed to make use of the idea. During the early seventeen hundreds slavery was not completely dissolved, but conditions for an everyday slave were changing for the better.

Everything was looking up for African Americans until the cotton gin …show more content…
They were now pushed back into laborious work and forced back into the lives they had constantly prayed to get out of. This was a vast turning point for the slaves. If the cotton gin was not created there was a large chance that slavery would have never been a problem again and that all African Americans could have been set free. The cotton gin did not only change the slaves life, but it changed the Americans way of living also. After cotton boomed in the south the farmers expanded their land so they could grow more and more cotton and then needed places to produce it. With a need to jump into the action the north created textile mills or better known as factories. It was a big deal at the time for the north they had the money to do this which put them over the south, the south was so self consumed with slavery and growing the cotton they never took it upon themselves to create the mills. When these mills were created it open minds into the world of mass product. In todays world mass production is used for nearly all