think of the slave trade between Africa, Europe, and the Americas. This form of slavery reached the colony of Jamestown in 1619 to help with the production of cash crops such as tobacco. In Kevin Stampp’s book, The Peculiar Institution; Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South, many aspects of slavery, such as workload, composition of families, slave life outside of work, and discipline of slaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is a story written about the lives of slaves and the different…
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