The article below from the Journal
of the Early Republic discusses how slavery was largely concentrated along
the Atlantic coast in the 1700s. This concentration spread by 1820, at which
point America had control of the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Valleys. The
article explains the expansion of slavery to the North American interior as a
result of the independence of the US and the “southern planters” dominance in
federal government, indicating that the slavery practices of the South rubbed
off on the rest of the country. Early on, the majority of slavery in the
interior of the US was stemming up from Caribbean plantations. After 1815,
American slavery made a significant push to the southern interior, which clashed with the existing slave practices and reshaped these patterns.
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