Why were slaves considered a ‘ necessity’ in the southern states of America?
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- The southern states claimed that they needed slaves for their cotton and sugar plantations.
- Thus, slaves who provided cheap labour were considered a 'necessity' in the predominantly agricultural southern states.
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Why were slaves considered a necessity in the southern states of America?
In the colonial era when slavery was established, there was no large class of dispossessed people looking to work for wages from employers. So the early English settlers in the south had to either do the work themselves, peasant-style, or buy slaves to do the work. Peasant style agriculture was what predominated in the north. But that means a small farm where you and your family have to do the work.
You’re not going to get rich that way. And the sons of English gentry class who founded the plantations in Virginia wanted to get rich. Fortunately for them England had just passed the Vagrancy Act of 1597 which allowed the authorities to round up any unemployed person and put them in a forced labor regime. So this is where the Virginia plantation owners got their first slaves. Captured lower class people from England, especially youths.
But English law required they be set free after 7 years. Once the colonies switched to life time slavery for people of African descent after 1690, they no longer had to buy a new workforce every 7 years. So it made for much greater profit.
So basically the slave labor regime in the south was created so unsavory scum could use captured humans to do the work of producing things for sale from which the owners made their profits. Slaves were necessary for that reason.
So I'll add to the fact that there wasn't a pool of people to hire for laboring in various Southern states. So if anything that made slaves an asset.
What made them a “necessity” was when southern agriculture started to boom. Particularly with the introduction of the cotton gin. Slavery was a cheap way to sustain the growth and in the words of someone else, the South had became “a society with slaves to a society dependent on slaves”. Though necessity is a strong word for that.
Southern plantations were not farms in the sense that most people think of them. They were factories for the production of cash crops. That takes a lot of labor. There was no population pool from which to hire the necessary laborers, and there was no practical way to hire them from elsewhere. On the other hand, the slave trade on the west coast of Africa had been there for a long time, so it was an easy available source of labor.
What do you think should happen to people whose ancestors owned slaves in the southern part of the United States?
Why did only four (4) Southern states mention slavery in their secession documents, when people say that all eleven (11) states seceded because of slavery?
In the years before slavery was abolished were there any freed slaves in the Southern states?
Odd as it may seem immigrants weren’t lining up to do stoop labour on someone els’es land for subsistence wages. And once the slave plantation system was in place, those slaves or more precisely their dollar value comprised a big part of the equity that they used to get loans for their business. Many would lose their plantations and their homes if they lost the slaves. Not to mention their fear of having to live with a large population of ex-slaves.
It’s very hot and humid (i.e. 100 degrees and 100% humidity isn’t unusual) in much of the South’s low-elevation farmland is where the cash crops of tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice, were grown. Cotton and tobacco take a lot of hand work while bent over or on one’s knees so it’s exhausting even without debilitating weather. Just about anyone who can looks for other work, ideally in a cooler dryer climate, so farmhands one could keep on the job on pain of death (a slave-owner in many places and practically speaking could murder a slave without consequences, let alone torture, beat, whip, castrate, lame, starve, etc. to keep them at the grueling work.) Free men left sooner or later if they could, particularly to escape chopping cotton.
Relatively speaking the South had many large land holdings set up as farming enterprises attempting to grow difficult crops for huge profits (rice, tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, especially cotton, after the invention of the cotton gin). Also, if you look where the black majority counties were, they were malaria zones and African genes meant resistance to it, unlike Northern European genes. White landowners would often have at least two families—one their ‘white’ one (didn’t summer on the farm) and their mixed race ‘black’ one. They would entrust the plantation to their black family when malaria raged.
Explanation: Slaves were considered a necessity in the southern states of America. They were used as workers on plantations,so people who owned plantations tended to have slaves, because harvesting machines were not available.
Besides greedy planters there is someone else you can blame for the prevalence of slavery in the South.
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