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. ... Rewarded with the high profit from cotton planting, white planters' belief in slavery was reinforced again and again by every cent they earned from the plantation system. When accused of keeping African Americans as slaves, some white planters even justified slavery by saying that it was better and happier for blacks to be slaves because they were in...
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