Some articles on slave, slaves:
... estimates that the average differential between slave prices in the Upper South and Deep South markets from 1830-1835 was $232 ... In fact, Evans suggests that interstate slave traders received a wage greater than that of an alternative profession in skilled mechanical trades ... skilled mechanical trades can be considered a reasonable alternative occupation for slave traders, then it appears that interregional slave traders are made better off, at least in ...
... The interregional slave trade was the trade of slaves within the United States that reallocated slaves across states during the antebellum period ... Transactions in the interregional slave market were driven primarily by interregional differences in the marginal productivity of labor, which were given by the relative advantage between ... Due to a lack of data, particularly with regard to slave prices, land values, and export totals for slaves, the true effects of the interregional slave trade on both the economy of the Old South ...
... Charles Deslondes was one of the slave leaders of the 1811 German Coast Uprising, a slave revolt that began on January 8, 1811 in the Territory of Orleans ... The slave insurgents killed two white men, and the militias and executions killed 95 slaves ...
... westward migration of the interregional slave trade from that incidental to the relocation of a slave’s master ... Pritchett, has this figure at about 50 percent, or about 835,000 slaves total between 1790-1850 ... It is worth noting that, even without the interregional slave trade, it is plausible that migration would have occurred naturally due to natural population ...
... who argue in favor of soil exhaustion as an explanation for slave importation into the Deep South posit that exporting states emerged as slave producers ... in the upper south shifted crop emphasis from tobacco to grain which required less slave labor ... the labor intensive nature of the crop created a need for slave labor in the Deep South that could be satisfied by excess supply further north ...
More definitions of "slave":
- (noun): Someone who works as hard as a slave.
Synonyms: striver, hard worker
- (noun): Someone entirely dominated by some influence or person.
Example: "A slave to fashion"; "a slave to cocaine"; "his mother was his abject slave"
- (noun): A person who is owned by someone.
- (adj): Held in servitude.
Example: "He was born of slave parents"
Famous quotes containing the word slave:
“Oh, has the foul atmosphere of foreign lands extinguished all your self-respect? Do you come back sordid and sycophantic, and the slave of opinions you would once have utterly detested?”
—Augusta Evans (1835–1909)
“The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“But he answered his father, Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command; yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 15:29,30.