Slavery During The Antebellum Era

Antebellum Period

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A research study on slavery of African American during Antebellum Era African American Studies
15 November, 2013 Antebellum (in Latin is pre-war) period (1781-1860) is an era of great upheaval and turbulence. The American Revolution concluded at the siege of Yorktown (1871), and southern States of America became major source of political and economic force in the building of American Union and Nation. However, Southern States, cotton states as they were often referred, seceded from American Union on the question of slavery. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas were among the most influential States growing cotton and tobacco and needed a great deal
Waltham or Lowell4 method of power looms in mills brought revolutionary change in the labor employed at looms. It slowly and gradually overtook previous system of apprenticeship with trained wage labor and replaced family labor and slavery in industrialized areas. It mainly took young trained women having softer and efficient hands to work better at power looms. Industrialization caused people shifting to cities for better income and wages but the promising scenarios for better income at factories and mills accelerated this movement5. Similarly, the changes in textile industry did not remain limited to it. Similar shift took place in other industries as well. the manufacturing of machinery, equipment, paint, furniture, paper, glass and all other modern sort of things used to be produced at that time in factories were affected by this new
In august 1829 happened one of the most bloody rebellion in the history of America where 60 whites were killed during that organized slave rebellion by Nat Turner7. Afterwards, 56 slaves were executed on account of providing assistance in the rebellion. The most horrible part was when angry scared people formed militia and mobs killed around 200 slaves consequently. The rebellion of John Brown was a failed attempt to equipped with arsenals to impetus in resistant movements, however, it provided the most needed energy and inspiration. Brown was arrested along with his compatriots and executed. After this incident South feared that the North was waging war to annihilate Whites in South.
Antebellum Era has marked the transition in full bloom. Slavery divided American nation and it was quite possible that two hostile blocks remained blood thirsty of each other and ready to destroy. However, Emancipation Proclamation brought American nation to that higher status to live with ideals of equality and humanity that it became not only a leader in democracy but also a torch bearer in humanity and its