why did whites tighten restrictions on slaves in the 1830s?
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2007-09-13 14:40:38 · 4 answers · asked by ~I Love Allen~ 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
§Scientific Justification
Until the 1830’s, White southerners believed blacks were degraded not by nature, but by environment (climate.)
§Internal slave trade from Virginia became a “multi-million dollar industry.” Between 1830-60 over 300,000 slaves were sent from Virginia to the “black-belt” region for sale.
§Many states tried to control slave trafficking for fear of a rapid increase in the slave population
1830s-
Southern legislatures enact slave codes to strengthen slavery.
Southern legislatures enact laws to restrict growth of free black population and to hem in freedom of free blacks.
Southern intellectuals begin to fashion systematic defense of slavery.
2007-09-13 14:54:45 · answer #1 · answered by Max 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tighten? Being a slave at all sounds pretty restrictive already?
Is there any benefits of being a slave that could be taken away from you?
Maybe if you give an example of what you mean?
2007-09-13 21:50:01 · answer #2 · answered by Brettski 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they were going up to the northern states to be freed cause up there they didnt have slaves only the south.
2007-09-13 21:52:55 · answer #3 · answered by naden 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
read about the Abolitionists movement
2007-09-13 21:48:51 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋