... price was right, what Stanley L. Engerman has said about Southern planters seems to apply equally well to Northern agriculturalists: they were certainly not "non-calculating individuals not concerned with money." With this one similarity being noted I would like to bring in James McPherson's argument "the North was more urban than the South and was urbanizing at a faster rate." ... , nor low rates of return, nor non adaptability of slave labor, but from choices of Southerners who had money to invest it in agriculture and slaves rather than human manufacturing, according to James McPherson...

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... , allowed slaves some opportunity to lead a decent life. Through a rather impartial social order, slaves filled no vital and unique economic niche, and there was relatively easy socializing between the races, free and enslaved, among the laboring classes. In the early 17th century black and white indentured servants from England worked together on plantations, sharing roughly the same quality of life, using ... independent economy of growing, buying, selling and hiring that competed with the economy of the slave owners. At this time slavery was often seen as a temporary state that time o...

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... the federal territories as a "whites-only preserve", although another argument from Lincoln is that it threatened to limit opportunity of free white labor which was also delivered in his Coopers Union Speech. His thoughts on race did influence the expansion of slavery into the territories ... his belief in the Constitution that the lawmaking should be abided by the nation meaning the belief that dismantling the institution of slavery wasn't possible without a legal basis. Lincoln was a member of the conservative Whig party which was partially influenced by his mentor Senator Henry Clay ...

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... the Pennsylvania colony established the first anti-slavery organization in the New World. In addition, a court decision upholding the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts claimed that all men are born free and equal and every subject is entitled to liberty (Document B). Clearly, northern territories such as Massachusetts were the birthplace of the abolition movement, as talk of moral opposition to the ... of black-rights believed that the races should coexist in harmony because they were interdependent and reaped social and economic benefits from intercommunication. Many whites also fe...

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... or local sale. However, the rise of slavery and the increased demand for food among the burgeoning colonial population spurred a shift in emphasis from sustenance to commercial agriculture. Slaves were a free source of labor and allowed the white farmers to increase their agricultural production with very little corresponding increase in overhead costs. Freed from the burden of growing enough food to ... . Changes in the political realms of the late colonial era heralded the beginning of large-scale participatory politics "one of America's crowning achievements. These changes would occur...

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