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Enslaved labor on United States military installations was a common sight in the first half of the 19th century, for agencies and departments of the federal government were deeply involved in the use of enslaved blacks. [1] In fact, the United States military was the largest federal employer of rented or leased slaves throughout the antebellum ...
By 1820, the amount of cotton produced had increased to 600,000 bales, and by 1850 it had reached 4,000,000. There was an explosive growth of cotton cultivation throughout the Deep South and greatly increased demand for slave labor to support it. [169] As a result, manumissions decreased dramatically in the South. [170]
Phillips addressed the unprofitability of slave labor and slavery's ill effects on the Southern economy. An example of pioneering comparative work was A Jamaica Slave Plantation (1914). [ 10 ] [ non-primary source needed ] His methods inspired the "Phillips school" of slavery studies, between 1900 and 1950.
McLeod Plantation focuses primarily on slavery, with Knowles writing, "McLeod focuses on bondage, talking bluntly about 'slave labor camps' and shunning the big white house for the fields." [55] "'I was depressed by the time I left and questioned why anyone would want to live in South Carolina", read one review [of a tour]. [58]
Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...
Ex-slave Maggie Stenhouse remarked, "Durin' slavery there were stockmen. They was weighed and tested. A man would rent the stockman and put him in a room with some young women he wanted to raise children from." [37] Many female slaves (known as "fancy maids") were sold at auction into concubinage or prostitution, which was called the "fancy ...
Historian Ulrich Phillips argues that Africans were inculcated as slaves and the best answer to the labor shortage in the New World because Native American slaves were more familiar with the environment, and would often successfully escape into the frontier territory they knew. Africans had more difficulty surviving in unknown territory.
Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. Seidule, Ty (2020). Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250239266. Silkenat, David. Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. New York ...