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Economic reason the farmers in the Constitution avoided the slavery question
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Why did slavery become a necessary evil of colonial economics?
Not all historians would agree that slavery was a "necessary" evil. In colonial America, slavery was a cheaper option was to running plantations than hiring laborers. Slaves weren't usually (if ever) paid for work, they often lived in broken-down buildings, their food was not high-quality.... etc. So I guess the shortest answer to this question would be: slavery was probably the cheapest and easiest way to run a plantation or farm.
What three things work together to make the southern economy?
Cotton, Slavery, and Oil
What are the bad things about slavery?
Slavery was bad because human beings were treated as property. They were killed, beaten and their children were taken from them.
What are peasant farmers?
They have a common root- Bauer in German, literally man of the soil- means both Farmer ( the more dignified) and Peasants. Farmers usually owned their own property which they worked. Peasants includes tenant-farmers, share-croppers ( a system which sounded benign but lent itself to abuses) and the very bottom of the barrel Slaves and serfs. Strange as it sounds there were supposedly laws in the United States ( well after the Civil War, that forbade or highly restricted the agrarian laborer from either changing jobs, or getting into another line of work. They were, in a sense literally tied to a very monotonous and heavy job. In a sense, this was a form of slavery. Thus, Peasant has a derisive aspect, unlike Farmer proper.
What describes slavery's role in the economy?
slavery was a luxury to the southern because they were to lazy to grow there own tobacco and cotton so they had the slaves do it
What did political parties do for many years after the Missouri compromise?
Political parties avoided the issue of slavery for many years after the Missouri compromise.
How did the farmers deal with the issue of slavery?
slaves were farmers.
In their early years North Carolina and Georgia avoided reliance on slavery?
true
Why did yeoman farmers not oppose slavery?
Because they were yeoman.
Which political party's platform completely avoided the issue of slavery altogether?
The Whig Party's platform completely avoided addressing the issue of slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. They focused more on economic issues and internal improvements rather than taking a stance on the divisive issue of slavery.
How did slavery affect the United States?
Slavery has had a great impact on the United States. Originally slavery was used as free labor for many farmers.
How had slavery been eliminated in the British West Indies?
What were the economic reason the framers avoided the slvaery question
What does western farmers think about slavery?
Western Farmers where not really against of for slavery, but they did not want slaves to be set free for fear of them taking there land and vausing them more trouble than they already have with the indians.
Why were the yeomen farmers not opposed to slavery?
because they need them to help with there crops
The evasion of the slavery issue by whigs and democrats in 1848?
The Whigs and Democrats avoided and evaded the issue of slavery in the election of 1848 by splitting down the middle on who was for and who was against slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the South wanted to keep slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the North wanted to abolish slavery.
Why did slavery grow rapidly in Georgia?
there were a lot of farmers who needed help and thats why it is so big and why slavery grew so rapidly
Why do you think the farmers were silent on the issue of slavery in the wording of the Constitution?
Because farmers needed slaves to pick cotton, Dumb a$$, did you mean Framers?
