1. By the early nineteenth century the South had thoroughly committed itself to an economic, social, and racial order based on profitable staple-crop agriculture carried out by a labor force of black slaves;E G See;J.S. HIST,1979
2. Reevaluating the Antebellum Slave Community: A Comparative Perspective
3. discussing the shifting American slave population from imported persons to those born into captivity);J. AM. HIST,1983