Once it was illegal to import slaves from Africa, Southerners tried to increase the existing supply of slaves. They encouraged slave families to have as many children as possible.
Northerners and southerners became more angry with each other.
southerners thought the taz helped one region more than another
more likely to own slaves
20. Question unclear. More what than slaves?
k NEW RESPONDENT. They had to restore their economy on new bases, which were no more those mainly based upon the labour of slaves. They had to rebuild their destroyed cities, mills, roads and railroads. All that gigantic work had to be brought forward in full respect of laws and rules imposed by a hostile Radical Republican congressional majority, which wanted the Southerners to pay the penalty of the secession and war, rather than to help them to recover from their awful situation.
How many southerners owned 20 or more slaves
798
only 11 held 500 or more slaves
2.5%
they were called biligannas
Many white southerners had slaves during the Civil War, but when the north won they didn't have slaves any more so the white southerners' lives were very different.
yes
They killed and hunted down the slaves killing all the ones that would revolt making sure that it would never happen again, is what the southerners thought, but it only sparked more slaves to revolt.
Some believed in expansionism and Manifest Destiny. Some wanted to expand slavery.
ANSWER The situation in about 1860 was as follows: the population, without the slaves, amounted to: Whites 7,800,000 Free blacks 200,000, of which 6,100,000 didn't possess slaves. Of the remnants 1,900,000: 1,400,000 possessed from 1 to 10 slaves, 300,000 possessed from 10 to 20 slaves, 200,000 (2,5%, two and half percent)) possessed more than 20 slaves.
It is because more and more people in the North where helping slaves escape to the North. Making it easier for slaves to run away... Once in the North many slaves would begin a new life.... and the Southern states had no power to remove a former slaves because there was no laws to protect the property rights of Southern Slave owners...
Typically slaves were prisoners of war that were captured in an attempt for a tribe to gain more territory. African rulers then sold these slaves to Europeans and others.