In time, other plantation crops such as cotton, sugar cane, indigo, and sugar beets were to thrive in the South. ... Five other states - Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana - followed in January 1861. ... Virginia had long been undecided about which side to join. ... We had been repulsed at Fredericksburg and at Vicksburg, and at tremendous cost had fought the battle of Stone River. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ocean-going technology brought Europeans into large-scale face-to-face contact with peoples who were culturally and physically more different from themselves than any others with whom they had interacted in the previous millennium. ... That this option was never seriously considered suggests a European inability to enslave other Europeans. ... The slave trade was thus a product of differing constructions of social identity and the ocean-going technology that brought Atlantic societies into sudden contact with each other. ... In addition, vessels from some regions on the coast appear to ha...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the tribes fell into the slavery rotation, they began raiding other tribes in order to capture slaves to sell for profit to the Europeans (Davis). ... However, "Soon after the colonization of the southeastern part of the country, the Creeks, Seminoles, Cherokees, Choctaws, and others came into possession of runaway slaves (Davis).... Benjamin Hawkins, who was the Superintendent of the tribes south of the Ohio River at the time, strongly and forcefully encouraged several southeastern tribes to adopt chattel slavery in order to have enough labor for their plantations and agricultural pro...

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• Approx Pages: 11
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Naked, chained, shackled, he awoke on his back between two other men in a pitch darkness full of steamy heat and sickening stink and nightmarish bedlam of shrieking, praying, and vomiting-(Haley 150). Furthermore, the men were chained to each other in very confined spaces, allowing no movement at all. ... (Haley 159) Finally, the constant rubbing of their backs against the rough wooden boards gradually wear the skin and muscles of Kunta and the other unfortunate souls so that the bone is visible. Kunta's screams were joined by others' as each movement up and down, or from sid...

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