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A 4 page discussion of the economic aspects of slavery. The author contrasts those impacts with the personal face of slavery, arguing that slavery was in fact not that economically profitable. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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subjugated black Americans to conditions that are sometimes hard to even imagine. Historical literature, however, serves as a vivid reminder of these conditions and as an affirmation that they really
did exist. While many have argued that the conditions of slavery were necessitated by American economy, an alternative argument is that slavery had disastrous macro-economic consequences for the South
in particular and for the Nation as a whole. Much has been written about the atrocities of slavery on a personal and a
familial level. Slavery entailed much more than back-breaking physical work for those that were bound to serve. It might be argued, in fact, that the labor aspects of
slavery might have been more easily endured than some of the more personal affronts that it encapsulated. In one primary account, an account written by a female slave that
was actually fortunate in many respects because she lived in the house of a more benevolent owner (an owner that was actually the half sister of her mother), the hardships
of slavery were assessed from a feminine perspective as opposed to a male perspective. This nineteenth century ex-slave wrote:
"Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women" (Jacobs, 2001, 37).
While this slave was in some respects more fortunate than others, the situation brings home the reality that she existed because of
a white owner entering into a sexual relationship with one of his female slaves. Sometimes these relationships were consensual but sometimes they were just one more aspect of the
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