Slavery Dbq

Slavery is a practice in which people own other people, usually criminals or runaway prisoners. A slave is a ‘property’ of his/her owner and works without pay on a daily basis, doing whatever their owner tells them to do. Many, if not all wars, were based on slavery, because many people had different views on it, and theses arguments over slavery is what put the U.S. into the Civil War, one of the biggests wars in North America. Slavery, in America, was introduced when the first African Americans were brought to North America in Jamestown, Virginia, in August, 1619. At first, slaves were only African Americans. Many African American slaves were imported from West Africa. These slaves were then traded for goods, such as cotton and guns. Slaves …show more content…
The South thought that slavery opened new doors for them. The South used slaves to get their work done, and they were a cheaper labor. South had a very big lack of workers due to payments, and they had very high expenses to hire workers, so they had slaves to work for them with no payments. Slaves saved the South a lot of money, and the slaves children would be used as replacements when they were too old to work anymore. The South thought slavery would be okay with god for there was nothing in the Bible stating that slavery was wrong, so they continued the practice. They also thought that if all the slaves were freed, there would be unemployment and chaos. The South defended slavery because the most important cash crop, cotton, would not be made without the use of slaves. Southern slavers were much better off than many of the immigrant workers because of money situations. By a law in the South, slaves were the personal property of their owners in all Southern states except Louisiana. If slavery were to keep growing, at that time, it would eventually be allowed in all states, which would make the Northern factories fire white workers for slaves. While the South thought slavery was a good thing, the North thought it was a sin, and thought it should be stopped immediately. The slave population in …show more content…
Until the Civil War, slavery spread over the United States for more than 250 years. The Civil War turned the South society upside down. In one run 4 million black slaves were freed, and the South began to be destroyed. Andrew Jackson, the Vice President of the United States at this time, was a Southerner from East Tennessee who began his career opposed to slavery because of the impact it had on white farmers. The counterrevolutionary activities of Andrew Jackson prompted a coalition of former slaves. After Northerners rejected Andrew Jackson’s policies in late 1866, republicans took a firm hold of reconstruction in the South, which they called the Radical Reconstruction. This transformed the black lives in the South, including the changed lives of whites as well. While free slaves were showing their new political power the Republican Party won the state elections through the South, with ninety percent of Black voters participating in 1867 and 1868, yet there were only two Black majorities in Southern states. As time went on, whites were showing their newfound rights and hoping to form a new society. Blacks were