**Min 250 words**
1. Explain how and why slavery expanded over time?
**Min 250 words**
2. Read one of the following articles and summarize what the author is trying to tell the reader about slaverys impact on the economy: Plus add your analysis of the article..did you agree with the authors theory or view?
- Did slavery make economic sense? by C.W. and A.J.K.D.
- Slave Tax as Sin Tax: 18th and 19th Century Perspectives
by Joel S. Newman - The Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies by Warren Whatley and Rob Gillezeau (PDF that Downloads)
- The economic basis of the slave trade by Dr Alan Rice
- Excerpts from Edmund Ruffin, The Political Economy of Slavery.
- Slavery and the American Economy By Waldron H. Giles, Ph.D.
- How Slavery Helped Build a World Economy by Howard Dodson
- How Slavery Led to Modern Capitalism: Echoes By Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman
- Without Slavery, Would The U.S. Be The Leading Economic Power? by Edward Baptist
- Slavery and American Capitalism