Conditions of antebellum slavery 1830 - 1860: Resource Bank Contents: By 1830 slavery was primarily located in the South, where it existed in many different forms.

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

Take away its legal sanction and subsidy, and the institution’s entire economic edifice crumbles.

The film discusses the historical context of slavery in Mississippi, beginning with the introduction of Eli Whitney's cotton gin in 1795, which revolutionized cotton production and increased the ...

With its 200 windows and 165 doors fashioned by enslaved craftsmen and put in place with enslaved labor, Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was the South’s largest antebellum mansion, or “big ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as ...