Brief Summary: The Impact Of Slavery In America

Yakndara Bassey

HIST 1301

November 22, 2017

Slavery: The impact in America

July 4th, 1776. America had become an official country, separate from Britain. Although the country was free not all of its inhabitants had the same luxury. Slavery had been very prevalent in the U.S. as a legal form of labor despite its clearly immoral characteristics. There were many laws that enforced slavery down in the south, things such as the slave code, which stated that slaves were property and were meant to be treated as such. American Slavery had horrible characteristics that influenced not only generations of African-Americans but the southern society as a whole. Slavery was heavily relied on in America, mainly in the south. There were many things that attributed

As many know cotton reigned supreme in the south and with something as valuable, bodies were needed to collect. “The South's warm, humid climate was ideal for cultivating profitable crops such as tobacco, cotton, rice, indigo, and sugarcane, which led to… its dependence upon enslaved labor.,” (America, pg. 466) essentially slavery was cheaper than indentured servitude and other alternatives seeing as they paid the slaves close to nothing. Farming was profitable and to keep profit cheap labor was needed.

When it comes to the North and Slavery it is basic knowledge that it wasn't heavily relied on. It is true that the North did not enforce slavery as much but it wasn't until the American Revolution that the north was influenced to eliminate the use of slavery. The decline of slavery in the north didn't have a strong impact as if t were in the south because “Unlike the North, the South had few large cities, few banks, few railroads, few factories and few schools.” (America, pg. 466). Meaning they mainly relied on low skilled task to bring income which was performed by

Though stripped of their names the slave was able to keep their religions and traditions, they were able to sing “spirituals”, which were songs with religious messages sung by slaves to help ease the strain of field labor (America, pg. 493). Being able to have an outlet led to the creation of the black society which heavily influenced the South. The black southerners influenced things such as music, religion, the pattern of speech and even literature, birthing writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ The creation of the black culture allowed slaves to unite over something rather than their shared