In the article American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’ by Sean Wilentz, it talks about slavery in the 1700s and 1800s, In the late 1740s and early 1750s, Western culture reached a turning point. producing what the great modern scholar of slavery and the antislavery movement, Slavery was a normal thing for white people at the time. Slavery lasted for almost a hundred years 1700-1800, which also made many people take slaves for granted. It seemed normal to use slave labor in the South at the time because the main economy in the south is cropping, the economy in the south would be weak without slaves, and mass production of crops would become a difficult task. The slavery plantation is run by the plantation owner to produce for the capitalist world market for the purpose of obtaining profits. This is its capitalist character. However, economically speaking, it is a slave economy, because it excludes the basis of capitalist production-freely hiring labor, and has the basic characteristics of a slave-occupied production method.slaves are the property of the plantation owner, without personal liberty; slaves are engaged in forced labor driven by direct violence, and slave owners deprive slave labor not only of surplus labor but also a considerable part of necessary labor.
People in the north say this is an immoral source of economics，South which believed that slavery was inhumane, opposed the expansion of slavery, and the South, which had always used slaves to develop industries, felt strongly against it. However, the North also became hostile to the monopolist of workers in the South, and the two sides began to conflict.
But whether it was because black people fought for freedom or northerners hated slavery, slavery was successfully abolished. Compared to Hannah Jones, Wilentz’s article is more in the description of what led to the occurrence of slavery and abolitionist.
