LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Northern slave owners started selling their plantations.
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The soil in the Northern colonies was not good for farming.
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More cotton was being grown in the South, which meant a greater need for slave labor.
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The plantations in the South were much larger than the plantations in the North.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A large labor force was needed to work the large plantations that grew labor-intensive crops like tobacco and rice. That labor demand was filled by the forced labor of Africans.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Origins of American Slavery Most of those enslaved in the North did not live in large communities, as they did in the mid-Atlantic colonies and the South. Those Southern economies depended upon people enslaved at plantations to provide labor and keep the massive tobacco and rice farms running.
Detailed explanation-3: -Southern States Slave Laws New England Colonies and Middle Colonies held slaves but not as many as the Southern Colonies and the work required of the enslaved was more labor-intensive in the south than in the north.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did the shift of slave labor to the cotton states affect planters in the upper South? They began selling their slaves to cotton plantations to compensate for their crops’ decline in value.