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6 Μαρ 2018 · With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America’s southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation. Their fuel of choice? Human slavery.
16 Αυγ 2019 · Historian and author Edward E. Baptist explains how slavery helped the US go from a “colonial economy to the second biggest industrial power in the world.”
From the earliest days of the American colonies, African slaves played an important role in the South because there was a shortage of workers throughout the fledgling nation. Yet as the use of slaves diminished in the North over time, it increased in the Southern states.
3 Δεκ 2013 · Slavery played a central role in shaping the social structure and economic foundation of the Southern colonies during the 1600s-1800s. The Southern economy heavily relied on slavery, particularly in the cotton-growing regions and slave trading.
26 Ιουλ 2024 · Slavery was integral to the Southern economy, primarily due to its role in the agricultural sector. Enslaved people were the primary labor force on plantations where they cultivated cash crops such as cotton, tobacco, rice, and sugar.
28 Δεκ 2023 · Applying the “Global South” as a critical concept, this chapter examines the lasting impacts of the transatlantic enslavement of Black African peoples as a precursor of contemporary forms of South–South migration and associated responses, representation, and challenges.
3 Ιαν 2003 · Plantation-grown cotton was the foundation of the antebellum southern economy. But the American financial and shipping industries were also dependent on slave-produced cotton. So was the...
