"Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" by David Silkenat is a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between slavery and the environment in the southern United States. Silkenat argues that the degradation of the southern environment...
Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate, and it still remains among the most hotly disputed topics in American history. Smith outlines the main contours of ...
Today, most people in the world condemn slavery. That was not true in the early years of the American nation. Many Americans thought slavery was evil, but necessary. Yet owning slaves was common among the richer people in the early seventeen hundreds. Many of the leaders in the colonies who...
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cotton gin in1793solidified the central importance of slavery to the South’s economy.By the mid-19th century, America’s westward expansion,along with a growing abolition movement in the North,would provoke a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody American ...
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In the eyes of some, the Mexican-American War was brought about for the purpose of advancing slavery. Charles Sumner wrote a critique of the war that was adopted by the Massachusetts legislature in 1847. He stated: A war of conquest is bad; but the present war has darker shadows. It ...
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