1. Race and Class in America: 1800 - 1850
On the contrast of the market revolution in the North, however, white planters in southern colonies were still relying heavily on their profitable "King Cotton"" and thus relying on slavery, making no responses to social changes at all. ... Throughout the Southern plantation system, probably in every acre of the field, the images of black slave labors picking cotton could be seen readily. ... Each of them is "three fifths of a human" and a "talking tool" "as stated by the southern white delegates, and a tool's highest honor is to serve its master. ...
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