HIST 1483 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Wild Horse, Sexual Coercion, Peculiar Institution
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Cotton and the us economy: 1820: cotton accounts for 39% of total us exports, 1840: cotton accounts for 59% of total us exports. The second middle passage: the expansion of slavery: the domestic slave trade (1810-1840s) New orleans was a major shipping port for cotton because of its position at the mouth of the mississippi river. Slave markets were all over the city where there were auctions of slaves to plantation owners. Forced migration of slave traders was usually done in the winter when crops were slower: slavery in the west. Cruelty and suffering: the violence of slavery: discipline and punishment. Because of how profitable cotton was, slave masters had more of an incentive to force every ounce of harvesting power from the slaves. Fredrick douglas wrote about his life story in a personal narrative. Violence was typically used as discipline and punishment. )ntimidation, violence, and fear was used by (cid:498)slave breakers(cid:499) to basically break the will of slave.
