AMH-4172 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: American Colonization Society, Atlantic Slave Trade, Triangular Trade
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South carolina through alabama and mississippi to texas. Cheaper and more efficient because of slave labor: significance: created the biggest crop production until the 20th century, the demand for cotton increasing meant the need to expand and produce more slaves. Upper south became slave producers and between 1820-1860 almost 1 million slaves are moved. Total value of slave industry billion, which is the biggest fuel of liquid currency in the entire u. s. v domestic slave trade: id: after the banning of foreign slave trade, the domestic trade flourished. Slaves were mostly sold from the old south to the frontier. War. v somerset case: id: case in great britain (1772) slave named james somerset was purchased in virginia and taken to london by his master. United states. v gradual emancipation: id: the approach to ending slavery that called for the phasing out of slavery over a period of time.
