Back to category: History Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. What was slavey in Ameica Analyze the philosophical and economic reasons for the growth of slavery in the United States. Slavery has been of signal importance in American history. During the Antebellum Period, it undergirded the nation’s economy, increasingly dominated its politics, and finally led to the Civil War between the north and south. After war, the legacy of slavery continued to shape much of American history, from the struggle over Reconstruction in the 1860’s and 1870’s to the struggle over civil rights a century later. From the middle of the seventeenth century to the start of the Civil War, slavery and commercial agriculture were intimately associated. During the colonial period, slaves grew much of the tobacco in Virginia and the Carolinas, rice in the low country of South Carolina and Georgia. Neighther southerners, who used slaves as field laborers and servants, nor northerners, who supplied plantations and consumed the products of slave labor, questioned the economic value of slavery. By... Posted by: Tamara Moore Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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