The Atlantic Slave Trade benefited the Europeans, the slave traders, and the American colonists. ... Machines were invented to speed up production causing large-scale industries to form, which in turn developed steam and water power. ... By 1763, there were 170,000 slaves, about half of the population. ... Eric Williams in Capitalism and Slavery gives many examples of the slave buyers making double their money in profits on the sales of slaves. ... Other supporting but crucial factors include the benefit in transferring Africa's technological skills and expertise to New World industries, ...

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From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated Congress had no right to prohibit the expansion of slavery to federal territories, and this would radicalize Lincoln's idea of a southern conspiracy that threatened the ideas of the Founding Fathers, which gave him a distinct moral conviction and tone to his political argument. ... By this rule, you are to be slav...

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Just as the nation the Whigs could not sustain itself while being half slave owning and the other half free. ... From 1836-1877 a loosely powered Presidential reconstruction of the Southern states existed while eventually a stricter more involved program by the Congress redeemed the southern states. ... Whose leaders were easily tempted to spread this cancerous slave institution throughout the nation. This being considered the Slave Power Conspiracy that was addressed by Lincoln, he noted that the party had Democratic ideals while expressing northern hatred against the South's political ...

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The Enslavement of Africans But why were the slaves always African? ... Strikingly, it was much cheaper to obtain slaves in Europe than to send a vessel to an epidemiologically coast in Africa without proper harbors and remote from European political, financial, and military power. ... But the victims of the slave trade also had a major impact on the trade. Probably about one in ten slaving voyages experienced major rebellions, of which the attempts to control increased the costs of a slave voyage to the point where far fewer slaves entered the traffic than would have been the case without r...

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