slavery in the north?

Question

In what way did the Nothern economy depend on enslaved African-American labor and who benfit the most from it?

Answer 1

Cotton exports. prior to Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Samuel Slater building a cotton mill, England had a monopoly on the cotton industry. But eventually, Britain ended up receiving the majority of the U.S. exports of cotton. In fact, for many years, the money made from exporting cotton was greater than the money made from all other goods exported by the U.S. The cotton gin greatly increased the amount of time cotton could be separated from the seeds, thus, Samuel Slaters mill was supplied with all the cotton ever wanted for spinning. It changed cotton from being a luxury to becoming a common cloth. Eli Whitney never made much money because many people stole his idea and made copies. Samuel Slater (who's mill was located in Rhode Island), made a good deal of money, but he did it by using child labor. Unfortunately the cotton gin increased slavery in the south. When Eli Whitney's invention was stolen, he took his skills and made a contract with the U.S. government to build 10,000 guns. He had the mechanical know how to streamline the process. He used metal molds for each part and had regular workers assemble the guns, rather than using highly skilled and expensive gunsmiths. So, the biggest benefactors of the slave labor was the North. The cotton was brought north, spun into yarn in Rhode Island by nearly enslaved poor children, and then exported to Britain and other countries. The entire union benefited from slave labor, but the greatest benefit went to Samuel Slater. The man who stole the idea of cotton spinning from Britain, and brought the evil practice of child labor with it.

Answer 2

I cannot say for certain, but tend to think slaves were more on the order of somewhere between valued livestock and farm labor/domestic help. Quakers pretty much put an end to northern slavery by around 1800. You can look on 1850 and later NY, CT, and other state censuses and see free black families enumerated living and farming just like anyone else. As tensions heated in southern states about slavery I think some moved to the midwest states and some to Canada.

Answer 3

Any crops that were grown in the North also had slaves picking them. Cranberries are a cold weather crop that slaves probably picked in areas of Wisconsin.

Lincoln only introduced an end to slavery years into the war to gain more ***** fighters whom were already freed before the war farther north in certain areas. So Lincoln did not at first have any notion not free slaves. (The war was not about an end to slavery but since the south wanted to succeed from the Union to become its own country, due to the tax situation.)

Answer 4

As a completely cheap source of labor,the South's economy depended on the slaves. I think for many that it was a economic necessity. The North was industrialized and though buying much of its products and food from the South-it was less dependant and in need of skilled labor more. I think our treatment of slaves and freed black persons afterwards is almost as horrendious---

Answer 5

Yes, blacks slaves built ships, houses, railroads, some African tribes like the Yoruba and Mende who had sophisticated blacksmith skills were particularity sought out. I have given a couple a links will a curriculum.

Answer 6

Slavery was in the South. Southern plantation owners benefited most from it.