Sectionalism – The North, South, and West (1820-1850)

Slave Economics. Slave Labor – majority were field workers. Value – by 1860, cost of field slave between $1,400 -$2,000. Invested in slaves not industrialization – only 10% of U.S. manufacturing in the South. Slave Life – all deprived basic freedoms. Wide variety of treatment – time, place, age, sex, occupation ................
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