History 2301E Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Paternalism, James Henry Hammond, African-American Culture
28 Mar 2017
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Slavery as labor system, social system, legal system. Labor system tied to agrarian state economy. Social system a system of regulating relations between the races (slave/slaveholder/non-slaveholder) Legal system defined the status and the rights of african-americans. 1860, slaves constitute one third of the population. Slavery disappearing in almost every other part of the world. South producing more than 60% of the world"s supply. Northern factories turning cotton into textiles, south purchasing northern goods. Needed more slaves to pick the cotton. As cotton expanded to the west, slaves moved. Northern areas needed less labor, had surplus to sell to the south. Nearly two million slaves sold between 1820 and 1860. Demand for slaves in south drove up the price of slaves. Fractures slave families, slave children from parents, husbands from wives. Slavery in american a regional, rather than a national system. Rural, lacked cities (new orleans and exception), lagged in manufacturing. Not transitioning from household production to factory productive.
