The expansion of slavery between 1790 and 1860

The expansion of slavery between 1790 and 1860 ushered in a new developmental phase of the “Peculiar Institution” in antebellum America, as white masters from the eastern seaboard states transported their slave property into the terrain of the “deep South” with the intention of exploiting its fertile, agricultural lands for the purpose of growing cotton.

But the process of transporting and selling slaves across the “Deep South” came at the physical and mental expense of entire slave communities that had endured years of oppression and torture at the hands of their masters. Please describe the nature and various dimensions of slave treatment on southern plantations, and how slaves coped with, and overcame, the material and psychological constraints imposed on them during antebellum America.