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Question

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3a. How did the cotton gin lead to the spread of slavery?

3b. How was life different for plantation slaves, city slaves, and free blacks in the South?

3c. What were 3 ways that enslaved people resisted slavery?


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Answer 1

The cotton gin made it so that more cotton could be grown so more slaves were needed. Free blacks still had it hard proving they were free all the time and still having many things denied to them. On the plantations thre was some family life, but many slaves were sold and families split. In cities most slaves were household servants.

Answer 2

3a. " The cotton gin increased the cotton-growing industry because it increased fiftyfold the quantity of cotton that could be processed in a day. This made the widespread cultivation of cotton lucrative in the American South, and is therefore often considered to have greatly facilitated increased demand for slave labor. The growing slave population was one of the contributing factors that ultimately led to the start of the Civil War and the end of slavery itself in the United States[citation needed]." -wikipedia

3c. "Slaves resisted from their masters and from society in a variety of ways. The slaves were known to do many things regularly that they were not supposed to do in order to acquire legislation. In 1807, slaves burned down enough barns in Virginia to stir up the state lawmakers. Likewise in Kentucky, slaves poisoned their owners multiple times causing action within the legislature. More often, slaves would run away or leave the masters plantation without passes. While away from their authority, slaves tested law enforcement by committing meager robberies or thefts. But sometimes slaves would go to the extreme by assaulting, raping, or murdering another person.6By the 1830's and 1840's it was becoming evident that slaves were learning how to read and write. Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia made it illegal for slaves to learn how to read and write. Plantation owners feared that if the slaves could read then they were more capable of revolting, and if the slaves could write than they were able to forge passes out of the plantation. All of these examples raised conflict because slaves were not supposed to be "legal personalities."7 "