LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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had nothing to do with the southern states because they were opposed to slavery.
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had illegal slaves but nothing like the numbers of slaves in the southern states.
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were less industrial than the southern sates and therefore had no need for slaves.
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Benefitted from slavery because the banks, insurance companies and traders all had their offices in the north.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The benefits of cotton produced by enslaved workers extended to industries beyond the South. In the North and Great Britain, cotton mills hummed, while the financial and shipping industries also saw gains.
Detailed explanation-2: -Northern states severly limited the rights of free African Americans and discouraged or prevented the migration of more. There was a minority of northerners called abolitionists who were vocal about ending slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -But slavery was an integral part of the economic and social systems of the North, too, from the very founding of the British colonies in the New World. It was with forced labor from enslaved people, and the profits this labor generated, that colonists built homes, grew crops, ran businesses, and created institutions.
Detailed explanation-4: -By 1840, the South grew 60 percent of the world’s cotton and provided some 70 percent of the cotton consumed by the British textile industry. Thus slavery paid for a substantial share of the capital, iron, and manufactured goods that laid the basis for American economic growth.