American Studies 2200E Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 6: Class Conflict, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hell House

• School: Western University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: American Studies 2200E
• Professor: Anna Zuschlag

Document Summary

Walter johnson, excerpts from soul by soul: life inside the antebellum slave market. People traveled south to louisinana in search of slavery. Slavery reduced to the simplicity of a pure form: a person with a price. Slave pens for holding slave to be sold. Show rooms for slaves to be questioned and examined. Slave trade charted along the demand for colonial staples: tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton, coffee, sugar. Slave importation banned in the us in 1808. Closing the trade did not mean north american slavery would wither away. Meant that expansion of slavery would take the shape of a forcible relocation of american-born slaves (cid:862)the do(cid:373)esti(cid:272) la(cid:448)e t(cid:396)ade(cid:863) Slave trade began to follow the international demand curve for cotton (nineteenth century) Cotton gin, louisiana purchase and the trail of tears opened new regions of the south to cultivation and slavery. The price of slaves tracked the price of cotton.