The Impact of Nat turner's rebellion

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The Impact of Nat turner's rebellion

Background

In the 19th century, the situation of the slaves experienced enormous changes. The slave labor opened huge cotton plantations in the forests of Alabama and Mississippi. The growth of the textile mills of England capitalists and New England demanded it.

Between 1790 and 1860, the slave population grew from 500,000 to four million and their living conditions worsened. Many small farms sold their slaves to large cotton and sugar plantations, where overwork killed. The apparatus of repression of the slave was strengthened. The southern states were like a vast network of prisons, armed guards and slave hunters. The slave hastened their own arms race to tighten repression of slaves.

Slavery is certainly a moral issue, but in the South, it was more of an economic issue. It was, from the point of view, one of the pillars to prevent the economy which was undermined by protectionism in the North. If the northern states have opted for free trade, it was obvious that the nation would have benefited and the South would have abolished slavery gradually, but at the end of the day, the result was opposite. To this was added the fear of the terrible effects of a slave rebellion as it had suffered from the island of Santo Domingo. Moreover, despite their firm belief that they had more surface area, Southerners were aware that population growth did not seem to go in their favor. The slave states did not reach the four and a half million inhabitants, of who one third were black slaves against the five million people in the Free states.

Furthermore, the phenomenon was only just started, and that foreign immigrants settled in the North (industrial) and not in the South, where agricultural work was carried out mostly by slaves. The political consequences of this process were clear. In the United States Congress, this difference resulted in an advantage of the Free states in a ratio of three to two, in the election of presidents, free weight was also higher. To defend against this situation, Southerners had only the Senate. Given its territorial Chamber-which meant that each state had two senators in their disparate population, Southerners could continue to impose their point of view provided that the number of Free states would not exceed than of the slave.

In 1819, among the twenty-two states, half of the states were under slavery. The position of the southern states in 1820 won a resounding victory under the so-called "Missouri Compromise." According to this, Maine was accepted as a free state while Missouri was a slave state. While maintaining the equality of senators, it was agreed that slavery be excluded from unorganized territories as states north of 36 degrees thirty minutes north latitude, i.e. the southern boundary of Missouri. During the presidency of Andrew Jackson, Southern Carolina tried to take advantage of a tax issue, the so-called Tariff of Abominations, to place a wedge between the Free states and isolate the ...