Although some advanced attempts to ban slavery-e.g., in the Northwest Ordinance-the newly hammered-out Constitution codified it by the Three-Fifths Compromise. Following tobacco production along the Chesapeake Bay, slavery was embraced in the newly opened territories of Kentucky and Mississippi, where slaves were force-marched in coffles, separated from families, bought and sold to new owners, and then used to clear fields and plant indigo and the new cash crop, cotton. It entailed wide-scale forced migrations from the lower East Coast to the South and West of the economically burgeoning United States. Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War, 2001) points out in this exhaustive tome. The story of slavery in America is not static, as Baptist (History/Cornell Univ. A dense, myth-busting work that pursues how the world profited from American slavery.
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