Insights on the Domestic Slave Trade

The popularity and persistent image of American slave merchants in public consciousness mainly depends on Mr. Harry's character in Uncle Tom's cabin. It is an arrogant and opportunist who is totally driven by profits, with essentially racists and barbarous, suspicious backgrounds, personality and principles. Ironically, this mainly reflects the views publicly stated in speech and sentences in favor of slavery. This imaginary historical version has been reinforced by the social abandonment of the southern upper class prewar culture.

Behind the economic growth of domestic trade farms is prosperous domestic slave trade that has greatly impaired the importance of the end of the 1808 transatlantic trade. As early as the 1780s, trade was established. Approximately 100,000 slaves migrated to the country before the end of the external slave trade in 1790 and about 100,000 slaves emigrated as slave sales sharply increased by 1815. By 1860, more than a million slaves will travel west from the old slavery in Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina states, initially to Kentucky and Tennessee, and then to the depth of the south. Domestic slave trade is deeply rooted in greater economic relations. For example, in South Carolina, slave-rich low-level producers dominate Congress and pass regulations restricting slave trade to prevent overproduction of agricultural production in countries where slavery is lagging behind . Slave Charles Bauer brought the price of $ 400 in the Charleston market in 1805.

After the abolition of international slave trade in 1808, domestic trade has flourished. Richmond became the center of the largest slave trade in the southern district and slave trade became the biggest industry in Virginia. It occupies 2 million sales from Richmond to the south, where the cotton industry provides a market for slave labor. Slave prices change greatly over time. During the cotton boom in the late 1930s, they fell below half of the 1840s, rose to about $ 1,450 in the late 1950s and rose to the highest of about 1,250 dollars. Men are 10% to 20% higher than women, and at the age of 10 children are about half the price of the main hands of men.

After slave trade was abolished in 1808, the main slavery that came into the southern part was domestic slave trade from the upper part of the south. By 1850, 8 million out of 5 million slave Africans working in the United States worked in cotton farms. Plantation The majority of slaves of Africans engaged in agriculture are wild hands. However, even in farms they are working with other abilities. Housewife, housekeeper, waiter, maid, tailor, and laundry. Other people were designated as carriage drivers, host families, stable boys. Craftsmen - carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, mills, co-creators, spinners, and textiles - are also used as part of the plantation's labor force