Liberty is Land And Slaves: The Great Contradiction.

The article discusses liberty and slavery in the U.S. during the nineteenth century. During the period, some people's liberty depended upon the denial of liberty to others. The liberty that offered prosperity to Southern white men consequently had an oppressive effect on the Native American people, whose vast lands white men have assumed from them, and to African Americans whose labor converted these lands to profitable plantations. The events explain why the South has been excluded in discussions on market revolution. But in reality, the South has figured prominently in the broader history of the capitalist development of the U.S. And slavery was a major component to this economic progress. It is an unfortunate fact that slaves, through slaveholders, made up a market that involved a form of human commodification or the buying and selling of human beings.