What was everyday life like for enslaved African Americans in the South?

In the rural South, the main staple crop grown was cotton. Northern shippers depended on the profits from the cotton trade with Europe, and the cotton industry greatly expanded during the early 1800s. By 1840, cotton accounted for nearly half of all U.S. exports, and the South produced more than half of the world’s supply of cotton. As a result, the men who owned the land where cotton was grown held a powerful influence over the U.S. economy. The intensive work of growing cotton relied on the labor of enslaved African Americans. They cleared the land, planted the seeds, picked the cotton, and cleaned the cotton fibers by removing the seeds, all by hand. As landowners in the South gained more profits from the cotton industry, they bought more enslaved people to work the land. Because these men and women brought wealth to landowners, not only for the work they did, but also their value in the slave market, they were treated as investments in property. Enslaved people were bought and sold at auctions, and families were separated for economic reasons, such as when the landowner’s property was divided among his heirs or if he went bankrupt. Because the businesspeople involved in the cotton industry viewed enslaved people as assets, or valuable things that could be owned, they were not granted the democratic freedoms of citizens. Instead, the majority of enslaved people spent their lives on farms, performing manual labor that contributed to the economic success of the land owner and his family.

louverture's prominent role in the haitian success over colonialism and slavery had earned him the admiration of friends and detractors alike.

explanation:

toussaint louverture began his military career as a leader of the 1791 slave rebellion in saint-domingue; he was by then a free man and a jacobin.

on 6 november american voters will elect members of the house of representatives and the senate, which together are called congress.

both houses of congress are currently controlled by the republican party, which backs president donald trump.

the democrats think they can win control of the house of representatives this year by winning a majority of seats.

doing so would let them block or delay the president’s plans by refusing to enact them.

all 435 seats in the house of representatives are up for election.

if the democrats want to take control of the house by having the most seats, they’re going to have to claim at least 23 from the republicans.

graphic: the battle for the house of representatives