How Did Slavery Affect America

Introduction Slavery was a major part of American culture in the 1800’s, without slavery America would have crumbled and gotten taken over by another country, but slavery is still bad the South wanted slavery but the North didn’t. The Industrial Revolution had a huge impact on slavery in the US during the 18th century. It increased the amount of slaves in the US by a lot. Then people actually started realizing how bad slavery actually was and wanted to abolish it. Abraham Lincoln stated “If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong.”

The Industrial Revolution

People now hate doing work in present day. The Industrial Revolution was the movement in which machines changed colonists way of life. It helped every man on Earth, it was like the invention

There housing, clothing, and food. The housing was usually a wood cabin that wasn’t built very good. It usually didn’t actually provide shelter and many people died from bad weather or even animal attacks. Some house workers got to live in the main house if they were lucky. The clothing was handed out once a year and were usually very old and worn. The house workers got the best clothes, field workers got okay clothes, and people who were too young or old to work got nothing. People who were injured and could not work got nothing as well. The food was handed out once every week and was usually a loaf of bread or something small, it was never nutritious and there was never enough to feed them. Some enslaved workers died from starvation and disease because of how bad the food was.

Facts About Slavery Slavery started in the US at Jamestown in 1619. They were used to harvest and plant tobacco and were native americans that lived there before they settled there, Most slavery was in the Southern colonies and there were over 10 million slaves in the US in 1850. The Europeans were the ones who actually started slavery. They got their slaves from Africa and they used them for more industrial uses than what the South did. 6 to 7 million slaves were imported in the 1800’s alone. The North actually wanted to abolish slavery but the South thought it would ruin their industry and kill agriculture.