Slavery in America
The cotton production in America helps in making the land more fertile and rich with soil nutrients. The United States was transforming because of cotton production, where slaves were highly demanded as a necessary commodity and led to more cotton growth. It boosts the economy, creation of factories, and building of textile factories1.
Question 2
“Slaves naturally resisted their enslavement because slavery was fundamentally unnatural.” They wanted their freedom because they considered as property2. “Taking meat out of one tub and putting it in another.” They took what truly belongs to them and keep away from their masters. They resisted their capture into slavery, where they pretended to be sick and destroying their working tools.
Question 3
The state had laws that the slaves were to be treated variedly, and they had no option or recourse in any case of denying what they have been told to do. Any person born by a slave was supposed to be slaves automatically in the society1.
Question 4
Solomon Northup was an abolitionist in America and wrote the book of Twelve Years a Slave. He is an African American freeborn by a slave, where he was also doing farming. Solomon Northup’s memoir encouraged black people and the slaves that they deserve better, they have talents and help stop slavery3.
- Mandel, Naomi. Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America. University of Virginia Press, 2006. 2. Morgan, Kenneth, ed. Slavery in America: a reader and guide. University of Georgia Press, 3. Tise, Larry E. Proslavery: A history of the defense of slavery in America, 1701-1840. University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Question 5
Slave patrols were people in groups armed to enforce discipline and monitor slaves while working in the United States. They were to free blacks, regulate their activities, and take control of them2.
Extra credit points
Question 1
Slavery helps in the development of the economy of the modern world. Slaves produced the labor necessary for the world’s growth at a cheaper cost, and they made the first mass of products into the current market. They encouraged the extensive plantation farming and the production of food into large quantity3.
Question 2
In the South of antebellum, most free black people did buy slaves, not to enslave them but to free them from servitude. It was also to preserve family ties as manumission was nearly impossible1. For example, a husband who had managed to be free might buy his wife and keep her in a pseudo-slavery to keep her from real servitude.
Question 3
West African traditional culture represented the spirit world’s beliefs through art such as masks, statues, and sculpture with artistic talents believed to be a way of pleasing the higher spirits1. Music is also believed to be important in pleasing the gods and setting a worship and dance mood for the believers.
- Mandel, Naomi. Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America. University of Virginia Press, 2006. 2. Morgan, Kenneth, ed. Slavery in America: a reader and guide. University of Georgia Press, 3. Tise, Larry E. Proslavery: A history of the defense of slavery in America, 1701-1840. University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Question 4
Slaves maintained extended family ties so that in the event of a separation, the extended family in the new areas the slaves were sold to would look out for them2. For example, whenever children were sold to different plantations from their parents, uncles, cousins, or grandparents would assume duties.
- Morgan, Kenneth, ed. Slavery in America: a reader and guide. University of Georgia Press,
Biography
- Mandel, Naomi. Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America. University of Virginia Press, 2006.
- Morgan, Kenneth, ed. Slavery in America: a reader and guide. University of Georgia Press, 2005.
- Tise, Larry E. Proslavery: A history of the defense of slavery in America, 1701-1840. University of Georgia Press, 1990.