INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES

How did the institution of slavery affect the people living in the United States in the period prior to the Civil War?

INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES

The American slave society in the antebellum South (1807--1860) was unique among New World slave systems. In the United States, the slave population not only sustained itself; it expanded exponentially. Other new countries in the world, from imports from the United States continue to maintain the population. In the southern United States, though, from the community to increase through natural growth - that is, from the mother who ...