This is how plantation owners profited off of slave labor

This document contains all of the amendments

This industry became the economic backbone of the southern portion of the United States

The average cost of a slave in 1860

in this economic system, every person has the right to labor for themselves

This amendment would free the slaves

The amount of money in today's currency slave labor accounts to

These are reasons that the constitution didn't rid of slavery

This is the system that free labor competed with in the us

This amendment would allow slavery to be practiced even after the constitution was put into place