The Age of Change: Reform Movement of the 1830's

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Life under Slavery-Urban and Rural Slavery

In rural slavery women men children eat were slaves from dawn to dusk on large plantations. The whip of the slave driver would compel them to work harder and faster.

By the 1830s the promise of cotton wealth had lured many Southern whites into farming which created a shortage of white laborers for such industries such as mining and lumber. So cities now needed more slaves to help.

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The Age of Change: Reform Movement of the 1830's

By Rebecca

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