To the inhabitants of this section it appeared to be a self-evident truth that the white race was born to rule and the black race was born to serve.

Where negroes outnumbered the whites fourfold, the mere suggestion of emancipation raised a race question which seemed appalling in its proportions.

Either in the Union or out of the Union, the rulers were determined to perpetuate slavery.
Slavery as an economic institution became dependent upon a few semitropical plantation crops.

When the Constitution was framed, rice and indigo, produced in South Carolina and Georgia, were the two most important.

Indigo declined in relative importance, and the production of sugar was developed, especially after the annexation of the Louisiana Purchase.