Why Is Slavery Important In The 1800s

Slavery in the 1800’s played a huge role in a lot of authors writings during the time period. Writing about slavery wasn’t something most authors took lightly. For instance, Harriet Beacher Stowe, after traveling to a slave state one day and seeing just what goes on when trading slaves forever changed to view on it and you can see and feel that in her writings. Fredrick Douglass was also a writer who wrote about slavery in his story “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845”. Douglas talked about how "There were no beds given the slaves, unless one coarse blanket be considered such, and none but the men and women had these...They find less difficulty from the want of beds, than from the want of time to sleep; for when their day's
The homes were built with the neo-classical style in mind, they were lavish mansions that displayed the wealth and taste of it’s owner. Because of the wind spread opportunity to see a plantation home and the things being done, the southern cities did not attract many people. While raiding crops on the plantations like tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton they often produced the items you needed on a daily basis. Anything that you could not make on the plantation yourself would be bought in town. The southern states grew very slowly during the 1800s, not many chose to live in the south, but if you were a free southerner and lived in the south you owned small farms and did not own slaves. Free Southerners were mainly Scottish/Irish or German descent living in the upper part of the south. These farmers had enough crops to fulfill their needs and only needed their family members to provide the labor. The Louisiana purchase was signed on May 2nd and was ratified by the Senate in October and in December of 1803 France transferred the authority of the region to the United States. After the U.S. gained control of the territory slavery was banned in the Louisiana territory north of the Mississippi