Whether born slave or free, African Americans in the ... The growing industrial economy of the North swallowed these new workers into its factories, employing them for long hours at low wages.

The essay considers the claim that slavery played a leading role in the acceleration of US economic growth in the nineteenth century. Although popular among pro-slavery apologists, the proposition ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or ...

Settlers from the South wanted to move to the West and take their enslaved workers with them Northerners wanted to stop the spread of slavery As new states were created, the issue of slavery ...

In British North America in the late 17th century ... or oversee the labor of enslaved people could participate in the slave economy by supplying foodstuffs and other goods to slave colonies ...

Another common explanation for the end of slavery is the economic argument that slavery declined as fossil fuel-powered machinery replaced enslaved labor on farms and even in factories.