Antebellum Slavery

Slavery became economically entrenched in America in the early 19th century because the slaves produced a lot of money for the U.S.  Cotton was a huge money producer in the early 19th century and the slaves would pick cotton all day and this produces millions of dollars per year. This gave a huge boost to America's economy. If they abolished slavery the production of cotton would drop tremendously which would lead to the loss of money for the U.S. 

A system of slavery based on race can affect human dignity because when you become a slave you are pretty much stripped of your rights. You work long days and make little to no pay. You are treated like an animal in most cases. Your owners also view you as a piece of property which is just shameful. This affects human dignity because you're given no respect and people make you feel worthless which makes people lose dignity. 

A slavery system like this can ignore many human characteristics. When you have a slave owners don't care about how they are as a person. For example these people don't care if you're nice or mean. They only care about your physical appearance and health. The owners buy the slaves to work and that's it. Han characteristics were over looked all the time during these times. Personally slavery is distrusting to me. I don't like the fact that it's a part of American history. All of these people were treated so poorly and owners didn't care about their characteristics at all.