| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In 1861, the year when the Civil War began, slaves comprised more than one-third of the South's population. (By the 1820s, all the states in the northeast had outlawed slavery.) Although some slaves were house servants and nurses to white children, most - both male and female (even pregnant women) - worked in the plantation fields raising such crops as hemp, rice, tobacco, sugar, and cotton.
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