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List view record 1: The History of the United States, 2nd Edition. Episode 33, Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery [efilm]List view anchor tag for record 1: The History of the United States, 2nd Edition. Episode 33, Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery [efilm]
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The History of the United States, 2nd Edition. Episode 33, Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery [efilm]

2020
Declining profitability before 1800 suggested that slavery would gradually die out, but the success of cotton agriculture and the labor needed to sustain it resurrected slavery. Northern abolitionists gathered force in the 1830s; southern demands for protection and extradition of runaways led to ...
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