Why Was Slavery Important In American History

Slavery is an important part of American history because it affected both the north and south. Slaves were an important part of the economy for the south seeing as how it was an agricultural based economy and without slaves there wouldn’t have been such a rich economy. Slaves farmed and processed their cash crops such as cotton, sugar, and rice. Although, slaves were a main part in the southern economy slavery was not approved of by the all of Americans. There were activists that were for slavery and there were activist that were against slavery. As a way of getting their story across, escaped slaves wrote narratives explaining their struggles and experiences. In the narratives read in class there was a common significant theme they all shared, and it was the affect their place of enslavement had on their experience as a slave.
Planation slaves and city slaves had a different experience with slavery; their difference in place of slavery tells us how public opinion dealt with slavery, the effect of slavery on a family depending on place, and what placement had to do with slaves being able to