What was slavery's role in the southern economy?

Answer 1

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The southern states were plantation states, consisting of large work forces of African-Americans who were brought over to North America by slave-traders. The slaves were either purchased from tribes who had captured enemy tribesman after battling, or captured by force. At the time a work force of slaves was the primary means for planting, growing, and harvesting crops. This method was used commonly before the invention of engines and farming machinery that could easily and more cost effectively work more efficiently than the slaves. Slaves were a part of the southern economy, even with effort to free them by the northern states, the practice of slavery would have expired on its own with more superior inventions and methods.

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Obviously the above answer does NOT take into account that SLAVES are still held against their will in many places in Africa, today. Examples are in The Sudan, Eritrea, Lagos, and Nigeria. Modern day slaves are just as abused as the blacks were in the 1800's in the USA.

Sex slaves are bought and sold in many parts of the world, where rich men buy girls for their personal use.

So yes slavery still exists in 2009.

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That's because the question was not asked about slavery in Sudan, Eritrea, Lagos or Nigeria, nor in Asia; but of slavery in the American South. The first answer adequately addresses the call of the question.

AnswerThe second answer is wrong, and the correct one is the first one. The question is not asking about slavery in any of those places, as answer number three states.

Answer 2

Slaves were bought from the triangular trade to the Southern Colonies. They had a major role in crops. They worked day to night. They only benefited Food, and little amounts of food.

By- Paramveer Amar 7th Grader in New York

Answer 3

Awful- pick cotton or other crop from sun-up to sun-down. Could be sold to another plantation and separated from family and loved ones. Slaves either worked in field, even children, or worked in the house, as servants or caring for children. Slave marriages didn't count, and slaves had to do everything a master or mistress ordered, including sexual relations. Also, in terms of representation, slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person as of the Missouri Compromise until the 13th Amendment. Even after slaves were freed in the South, most stayed on and worked as sharecroppers on masters' lands and were paid almost nothing.

Answer 4

It was hard, brutal and short.

You had the same legal status as a plank of wood, as a plough, as a dog or as a painting. You were someone's personal property and if they decided to simply end your life (as they might decide to burn a plank of wood) neither you or your family had any legal say in the matter.

You could (and were) beaten severely about the body and then head with sticks, whips and fist n hands without any say in the matter. Just imagine it as a modern person, no matter how good or badly you did you "job" the master could simply decide that since he had had a bad day he'd beat you until you were senseless. If you fought bad or hit him, then the local judge would decide against you and hang you! You had no rights except what you owner (that's right, OWNER) decided to give you.

The master could walk into your home and take your wife to have sex with and if you even looked at him with hatred he could simply kill you. He could burn your children in his fireplace if he wanted to. All this because as far as the law was concerned, YOU and your family were not HUMAN beings! You were property, plain and simple. He could remove your left leg if he wanted to and you had no more legal say about it than did a piece of furniture would have had if the owner decided to simply cut off one of its' legs.

He could decide he didn't want to allow you to eat that week and watch you stave as you looked at his overloaded table of beef roasts and food. Tough! Too bad you, but then again you were a slave, so who cared what you thought or felt, or suffered!

Answer 5

The first black was brought to Virginia in 1620, after that, the life span of immigrants to America began to increase causing the switch from indentured servants to slaves. Slaves were the main source of labor in the entire South. Virginia and North Carolina the main product was tobacco, also the sale of slaves to the Lower South was a very promient trade in Virginia. Georgia used slaves for indigo, as well as cotton. Cotton was the most promient agricultural product that slaves were used for. If the Cotton Gin was not invented, the insitution of slavery would have died out, due to the effect of the Cotton Gin, the slaves were then able to contineously pick vast fields because the cotton could be processed quickly. The entirety of the Lower South was made for the picking of cotton from Texas to Georgia. Slaves during the Civil War were used to in factory jobs, fields, and often travel with the Armies of the South and provided a source of labor.

Answer 6

A:Slavery was nothing but work and no breaks.

B:The slaves were treted more like animals then humans so they were sold for money and put on plantationsin the Americas.

Answer 7

PART A: Which statement best identifies the central idea of the text?

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