Slave Economy

The author surmises the feet and heads, hand, tongues, breath, seed, blood, and backs and arms had made all of African America, United States, and modern world. The author argues that slave owners created a system to reduce African American to body parts “feet walking like a chained machine, hands on the block and picking, minds and nervous systems yield revenue, providing entertainment and pleasure.” (415)From the 1790s, the continually increasing productivity of enslaved slaves had generated the most important raw material in the world economy at a wealthy and powerful, too. Enslavers also extracted disportionate influence over the government ensuring the creation and implementation of policies that benefited them. From 1800 to 1840 the average rate of increase climb to 0.66 % to 1.13% per year from 1800 to 1860 raw cotton production gained in efficiency still more quickly than other sectors of the economy cotton not only dominated US exports and financial sector but also drove the …show more content…
It was a southern right to expand slavery as far as enslavers wanted it to go. Slavery was a highly efficient way to produce economic growth. In 1850s southern production of cotton doubled from 2 million to 4 million. Moreover, the 3.2 million people enslaved in the United states had a market value of 1.3 billion in 1850 1/5 of nation’s wealth and almost equal to the entire gross national product. The newest iteration of domestic slave trade enabled wealthy cotton slave owners to expand their operations dramatically. The success of richest almost came at the subsistence farmers off land made marketable by the railroad. Cotton production and slave ownership became increasingly concerted among those who owned fifteen or more slaves. Expansion’s profits and power made southerners willing to push for more expansion.Slavery’s expansion was the driving force in US history between the framing of the Constitution and the beginning of the Civil