The civil war was fought in the United States against the north and the south and lasted four years from 1861 to 1865. Prior to the civil war the United States was broken into slave(South) and free(North) states. The north’s economy was based on manufacturing and industries, whilst the south’s economy was dependent on a cash crop; cotton in which the south wanted to not pay workers to pick the cotton so slaves were used in doing so. Given that most people believed that the civil war was caused by the state’s not getting the rights they needed and by the election of Lincoln who wanted to abolish slavery. Slavery was one of the main reasons for the civil war as it kept on feeding into it. This is for the fact that it was morally wrong, they were …show more content…
We can view this being done in a photograph of plantation workers, in Georgia, 1860 [Document A] This photograph shows what seems to be a family of slaves including many children with possibly their parents all working in a field of cotton. The audience that this photograph is for those who would sympathize for slavery. This photograph is showing how the plantation owners wouldn’t care about the age of the slave as long as they were working and they didn’t have to pay them. We can also see on the map of the South East of America [Document C] it shows us the relationship between the rise in the production of cotton and the rise of slaves in the south. It is shown to give people more of an understanding of this map. This relationship shows that in the four decades from 1820 to 1860, the economy of the south had gotten to the point where they could have more cotton being produced as more slaves were …show more content…
We can see how sectionalized America had become in the election of 1860 [Document G] this map of electoral votes is quite noticeably divided almost completely in half. This electoral map allows us to easily view the difference in who was voted in the regions. The north and new states such as California and Oregon voted for Lincoln who viewed slavery as being unjust, whilst the south voted for Breckenridge who was someone that viewed slavery as being a political matter and wanted to leave it to the states to decide on whether to have slavery or not to. In a writing from Senator Albert Brown [Document D] named A Warning Speech he mentions how the north; in his view, has been talking bad about the South and how they might as well secede instead of being emancipated from the states. The people that Albert writes for are southerners as a southern who most likely also owns slaves. This writing shows how the south felt they were being treated by the north and viewed as being in their eyes
A phrase commonly used to describe the economy in America during these time periods is “Cotton is King”. It was the first mass consumer commodity. It was also one of the world’s first luxury commodities, next to sugar and tobacco. Cotton also turned many black human beings into commodities themselves. Unfortunately, slavery was a key component in the production of cotton.
As the steamship and transportation as a whole began to futher integrate itself into northern economy, the South focused more on cotton growth and strenghtening planations. The concerns about the workload were justified through the necessity of cotton, buhe concept of slaves being property and used harshly for profit went against the country’s Declaration of Independance which states that man is entitled to liberty. On the other hand, the North spent days at the factory to create product and participate in trade. Although the North used southern cotton for textile creation, there is no denying that with one clear side of manufacturing, and another on agriculture, the lines of national economy were clearly blurred as both ends of America continued to work without working
These essential records will endeavor to indicate how critical bondage and the cotton business intended toward the south amid the common war period. The cotton business in the United States was conceivable in view of the cotton gin. The cotton
The Union’s approach to ending the Civil War and restoring the country was ultimately quite bold. Along with this, the Union handled restoration, mainly involving the issue of slavery, step by step until stability could exist again. The Union's main concerns were preventing the Confederacy from gaining any political power, aid from abroad, or strong military strength. By displaying complete power and determination over these issues, the ability to put an end to the rebellion would be much easier.
In 1619, shortly after the first settlers found success in planting crops, the first slaves were imported from West Africa; the expansion of slavery became a key feature of the southern lifestyle. However, the article goes on to say that “ . . . [b]ecause agriculture was so profitable, few Southerners saw a need for industrial development. Eighty percent of the labor force worked on a farm or plantation.” The South made money off of agriculture, and they never thought they would need to switch to an industrial-based economy.
In the days when slavery was booming and tobacco farming was at its peak, the foundations of America's economy was being built. tobacco farms were the number one producing product in America at the time, it was easy and with the help of the Native American Indians they had been taught to properly grow them. Next to tobacco sales the slave market was among the most frequent and requested transactions in the time period. These relations between purchased slaves and white colonial Americans consumed the trade market in the south. Pictured above is bread crumbs of a foundation being built for a developing economy, the many indentured/life long slaves working are accompanied by what appears to be the many owners and blooming businessmen of the
It also talks about the job that was available, and compared the cost to picking cotton (Eichenlaub,1pg). "Moving northward and to the Mid-west, the number of Negroes leaving the various southern states more or less coincided with the degree of harshness under which they attempted to live and
This industry of the textile growth was a beginning of a production of reorganized capitalism (Gorn, 2007 pp.147). As the freedom of labor was able to be purchased or sold, owners were able to hire or fire their laborer this became central to the system. However, the individuals who produced the raw cotton that became cloth were not with such freedoms, the slaves that worked the field especially the ones from the south were still considered property and were still owned by the property owners (Gorn, 2007 pp.
According to Sven Beckert in Empire Of Cotton, in 1862 one fourth of the world’s population depended on the cotton industry(2). At the center of this massive industry was slavery, “slavery enabled the stunning advances of industry, and the accompanying profit”(4). Now two of the world's major industries relied on slave labour, sugar and cotton. Racism finally solidified as a result of emancipation efforts, which threatened to crumble the world’s economy. This sentiment is reflected in Campbell and Oakes review of White Over Black by Winthrop
In the article “Cotton and Slavery”, the main idea was about the South and North America’s Civil war due to the slavery of producing cotton. The North and South’s theory about slavery was different: The North thought it was inhumane of not giving payments to the slaves who deserves, but the South disagreed. Before the Civil war begun, the industry of cotton was the biggest boom. The people earned money by making cotton into clothes or other products.
One of the reasons American cotton was attractive in the market was its low prices, which was a consequence of the employment of slave labour. Here, the social relationships contributed significantly to the economic structure. Slave owners, who more often than not, were also plantation owners or landlords, exerted their dominance over slaves. The relationship between these two groups was one of violent domination. Cotton planters often used violent means to extract maximum possible labour from the slaves.
South’s economic depended on the plantation of cottons, and slavery was very important to the plantation. In planting huge quantity of cotton, slavery was essential because their labor were inexpensive. Indians and white men could not endure the hard working conditions and white men labor were expensive due to wages. Thus, in the Memoir on Slavery, William Harper explained that the result of emancipation would be the ending of cotton plantation, and eventually the southern economy as well.
Most of the cotton came from plantation where large number of slaves was forced to work and they were not paid and were treated badly. They worked for long hours and were not given opportunity to learn. The south’s economy was reliant on slave work which appeared to crumple without the slaves.
According to Mr. Coates, in 1860, slaves as an asset were worth more than all America’s manufacturing. The long days of working on cotton fields with chains to their feet, was estimated to have generated tens of millions of dollars. The pain and suffering of Blacks did not end when slavery
In addition, because of cotton production, an expansion of slave-plantation culture increased in the South. Essentially, the author explains that the introduction of cotton increased