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Cotton gin

A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793

Auction

A public sale in which property or items of merchandise are sold to the highest bidder

INdustrial revolution

A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

Who was A. J. McElveen? What was his purpose for writing this letter? What does this tell you about the economics of the domestic slave trade?

A.K McElveen was an agent for Ziba B. Oakes, a prominent slave trader and auctioneer in Charleston, South Carolina. The Purpose for writing this letter is that A.J McEveen is trying to sell one of his slaves to another slave owner who wants her, he describes her appearance. The economics are rising due to slavey.

What type of publication was Genius of Universal Emancipation? What might have been the purpose for publishing this article?

An Aboltionist news paper, the purpose of this was to awareness about how the slaves were being treated on the way to their slave masters houses or plantation. This shows an awfully disguisting piece of U.S History.

eli Witney

Invented the cotton gin

What do McElveen's descriptions of slaves tell you about the domestic slave trade?

McElveens descripitions of slaves tell you about the domestic slave trade is it's starting to rise due to the amount of people wanting to sell and pay for slaves.

Based on the timeline and map, why did slavery grow in the early 1800s? What key events may have helped slavery expand?

Slavery started to grow in the early 1800s because the cotton gin was invented, it was very high in demand. Many people needed the cotton gin so they could help grow there crops. In the 1760s the First ever industrial revolution began in England, and Eli Witney invented the Cotton Gin.

Slave trade

The business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves

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The massive trade of slaves from the upper South (Virginia and the Chesapeake) to the lower South (the Gulf states) that took place between 1820 and 1860.

. Compare this account to Document B. What information from Document B does this letter corroborate?

These documents compare with each other because it discusses what slaves had to go through and what a day-day basis potentially looked like for them. It's upsetting that African American people at this time were used to this and didn't experience or expect a childhood, or a fun living life, but rather depression. Document b supports document d because in document d there talking about slave trade, and it could help give us a sense of how wrong slavery is.

First Industrial Revolution

beginning in Great Britain in the 1780s, which gave rise to textiles, railroads, iron, and coal

According to the article, why were people chained together on the La Fayette?

ople were chained at La Fayette because the number of slaves aboard the ship. This is to prevent them from having any free range of motion, and preventing them from running away.