![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From here, the second chapter examines how violence was central to the expansion of the slave frontier into the Mississippi Valley, noting how the Haitian Revolution ironically allowed the United States to purchase New Orleans and the area around the city from the French, and how the violent displacement of vast numbers of Creek Nation American Indians created more territory for cotton plantations. It also begins to explore the growing significance of forced migration, both to slavery as an institution and to the development of the United States. In doing so, it examines both some early tensions between the North and South and the solid foundation of cooperation over slavery that benefited both regions. The study begins by exploring the early use of slavery in the Americas and the beginnings of a new model of slavery that would go on to profoundly shape the future of the nation. ![]()
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