HIS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Atlantic Slave Trade, Cotton Gin, United States Territorial Acquisitions
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Slavery and the seeds of modern racism: slavery and the crop shift. U. s. slavery unique: self-reproduction: u. s. import 400,000 slaves up to end of slave trade. 1860 4 mil black people in america. Sla(cid:448)es (cid:373)aki(cid:374)" (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies: outgrowth of development, close atlantic slave trade, force slaveholders to ensure safety and health for slaves, backdrop of development on racial ideology, cotton gin: technological advance. Makes slavery profitable tobacco lose profit: short-staple: before cotton gin. Coarser fiber not suited to manufacture lots of seed-needs more man power. Need more workers hurt (cost benefit analysis: long staple: principle source of cotton, nice, softer, superior since man power hours needed are minimal. Easy to sep. only grown in coastal areas limited: cotton gin: eli whitney ga offer cash prize to anyone who makes cotton gin give slavery new cash crop. Cotton and westward expansion: war of 1812: u. s. war of expansion wants to dominate western. Atlantic slave trade involves other continents: domestic slave trade.
