Role of Slavery in America..

During the decades before the civil war started, the cotton that slaves used accounted for half the value of all United States exports, and it provide all the cotton used in the northern textile industry and about 70 percent of the cotton was also used in British Mills.  However the slave south failed to establish commercial and financial or manufacturing companies.

Learning about slavery I was able to find out that there were some famous slaveholders,

Some famous slaveholders that you might have heard have are Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington as well as Benjamin Frankly and Jonathan Edwards.  Slavery is basically treated as an important aspect of history, including the African American history. Even though slavery wasn’t such a good historical event that occurred in the United States it did play an important role for our nation. It played a crucial role in the making of the modern world, in other words it helped in the settlement and development of the New World. Also, in the history of the United Stated, it existed in all English mainland colonies. The debate over slavery dominated the American politics and it lead to an important event of our American history the Civil War. The war that helped achieve the independence of certain countries.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/slavery/index.cfm : Digital History/ Learning About Slavery and Its Background.