which part of America was built on slavery?
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South half of the United States of America there was a lot of slavery in New York.
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Would you have stayed in the south if you were a slave?  No.  They were looking for jobs and racial tolerance by going north.
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To work as slaves in the sugar industry mainly
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1/3 of them owned slaves
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It slavery never happen America wouldn't exist today. They probably would be ruled by Indians or Mexican or something. The slightest thing can completely change History. And you know they would be in Africa.
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Regarding slavery...\n\nIn the Census of 1860, the last census to count slaves (as slavery was abolished following the Civil War), Georgia had the 2nd most slaves - 462,198. That was about 48% of the total population of Georgia. \n \nTotal slaves, by state, 1860:\nVirginia ---490,865\nGeorgia ---462,198\nMississippi ---436,631\nAlabama ---435,080\nSouth Carolina ---402,406\nLouisiana ---331,726\nNorth Carolina ---331,099\nTennessee ---275,719\nKentucky ---225,483\nTexas ---182,566\nMissouri ---114,931\nArkansas ---111,115\nMaryland ---87,189\nFlorida ---61,745\nDist. Columbia ---3,185\nDelaware ---1,798\nUtah ---29\nNebraska ---15\nKansas ---2\nCalifornia ---0\nColorado ---0\nConnecticut  ---0\nDakota            ---0\nIllinois ---0\nIndiana ---0\nIowa ---0\nMaine ---0\nMassachusetts ---0\nMichigan ---0\nMinnesota ---0\nNevada ---0\nNew Hampshire ---0\nNew Jersey       ---0\nNew Mexico  ---0\nNew York ---0\nOhio ---0\nOregon ---0\nPennsylvania     ---0\nRhode Island ---0\nVermont ---0\nWashington ---0\nWisconsin ---0
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In the 1840s things started heating up between North and South over general states' rights against the rights of the federal government. The issues adressed generally dealt immediatly with slaves. New states admitted to the Union had to be judged as "slave states" (slaves allowed) or "free states" (slavery prohibited). \n\nBoth sides wanted new states to be whichever side they favored because it would give them more legislative power in the US Congress. This led to bloodshed in many areas, particularly in Kansas, which became known as "Bloody Kansas". \n\nIn 1861, South Carolina seceded from the Union (said they werent part of the US any more) and started seizing federal property, including arms and munitions. \n\nOther states started seceding as well. Soon the seceded states formed what they called the "Confederate States of America", which came to be headed by Jefferson Davis as President. They attacked Fort Sumner in South Carolina and seized the fort, capturing it's inhabitants. This was treason.\n\nAbraham Lincoln (President of the US) immediatly called for 75,000 troops to put down the uprising. Then the Civil War started, eventually involving millions of troops. 600,000 men eventually died in the conflict, and the US was shattered for decades after the war. Remember, this war was fought to unite the Union, NOT for slavery. In fact, slavery was only addressed in 1862 when Lincoln set forth the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in the Confederate states. By 1863 there were armed black soldiers in Union armies, serving with distinction. In 1865 the CSA tried to use black troops, but they were destroyed before the plan could be implemented.\n\nIn 1865 the final Confederate forces surrendered (General Johnston was the last to surrender, but with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee the war was pretty much over). Richmond, VA, the Confederate capital, was seized. \n\nLincoln began steps to rebuild and reunite the US. He planned to be kind to the newly reunited South and not punish them for seceding. Before he could start, he was killed by a man named John Wilkes Booth. \n\nThe years following became years of anger and hate for Southerners. The North oppressed and punished Southern insurrection with high taxes and legal oversight. This period became known as Reconstruction, and it really only ended around the 1970s, one century after it started.\n\nHope I helped,\nThe Wise One\n\nP.S. For more information check out http://www.wikipedia.com\nThey are pretty good, but it's better to read books...however that takes more time than I think you want to spend.
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Unfortunately, slavery was a vital institution for the economic well being of the South. Whenever the issue of slavery came up during the drafting of the Constitution, arguments between North and South arose, which was one of the precursors to the Civil War. The Missouri Compromise, the 2/3 Compromise, both dealt with the issue of slavery and how far north it could extend. Southerners referred to it as a "necessary evil", a bad thing, but nevertheless it was vital to the South's economy, and also the nation as a whole.
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it would have to be african slaves...a very sad part of us history
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Washington DC~see the last line of the proclamation...\nhttp://homeofheros.com/presidents/speeches/lincoln_emancipation.html
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Civil War and the End of Slavery in West Florida  \nThe Civil War and the End of Slavery in West Florida. Copyright - Duke Vickrey 1999. The Civil War brought an end to slavery in America. Of course, it would have ended in time without the War. No civilized nation today still allows slavery.www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/3010/slavery.htm - 16k - Cached - Save -
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1861\nFort Sumpter\nThe less populous south detested the more populous north using its majority position to dictate policies regarding economics and slavery in ways that benefitted the north and appeared to harm the south.
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See, I am in Third Grade and I love writing about the history of people that have helped me and my family see my dad was born into slavery and he also escaped to the North with Harriet Tubman. Sorry to get off track but here is a part of my report from my studies I learned that Harriet Tubman first escaped to the north by her self then she realized that if she only helped herself she would be selfish and so she made nineteen trips to the south and helped over three hundred people escape from slavery. Again sorry for getting off track but she was against slavery because she said that we should not be judged by the color of our skin and that it is very unfair for white people to own black people.My dad got some slave laws and here they are. \n\nSlave Laws\n1. No one was allowed to teach slaves how to read or write nor were they to be given books or pamphlets.\n\n2. Slaves were not allowed to buy or consume liquor without the written consent of their masters.\n\n3. Slave owners were required to feed and clothe their slaves and take care of their sick and elderly slaves. Failure to do so could result in a fine to the master.\n\n4. Slaves were not allowed to preach, except to their masters' slaves on their own plantation and in presence of white people.\n\n5. Any child who had one free parent and one slave parent was only free if the mother was the free parent.\n\n6. Slaves could not conduct business without a permit or own any personal prperty.\n\n7. Slaves were not allowed to own or have their possession weapons of any kind.\n\n8. The testimony of slaves in court was disallowed exept in those cases involving other slaves.\n\n9. It was illegal to mistreat or kill a slave unless the slave resisted punishment.\n\n10. SLaves were not allowed to strike white men or to insult them in any way.\n\n11. Slaves were never allowed to enter into any kind of legal binding contract, including contracts of marriage.\n\n12. A slave who traveled away from his own plantation had to have a pass to show as a means of identification to any white man who challenged him.\n\n13. Slaves were not allowed to swear, smoke or walk with a cane in public.\n\n14. Slaves had to step aside when whites passed them on a public street.\n\n15. It was illegal for mare than five slaves to gather together away from their own homes unless in the presence of white people.\n\n16. Slaves were not allowed to own their own animals, nor could they grow their own cotton; however, theey could have thier own gardens if thier masters allowed.\n\n17. It was illegal for a master to work his slave in the field on Sundays exept as punishment or unless he paid them for their work.\n\nI hope all the above information helps you an your school project. E-mail me and tell me if this info works or not. My e-mail address is a-maknojia@sbcglobal.net.
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Apparently Madison, Monroe, Andrew Jackson and Johh Tyler, with Van Buren's family also owning them when he was a child.  Interestingly, of the first six presidents, four were from Virginia, and they were the slaveholders.  Of the next six, five were from the south (including 3 more Virginians).  One wonders if the history of slavery in the US would have been shorter had the White House been occupied by more northerners in its early years--or would the Civil War have come that much sooner?
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I will only help if I can be cited in the essay.  \n\nThere was a triangle of trade.  Manufactured goods would be sent to Africa.  From Africa, slaves were sent to the Caribbean or North America.  Then from the Caribbean or North America goods such as Rice, Sugar, Tobacco, Rum, and Cotton were shipped back to England.\nThat is what I learned in history but for a detailed explanation check out the site below:
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The importing of slaves was outlawed before the Civil War. Slaves were "home grown" by breeding slaves in the US.
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Probably when slavery was illegal, 1865.