Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 exam•Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Definition
The period of rapid growth in cotton production and demand in the first half of the nineteenth century that drove the expansion of slavery and the domestic slave trade.
AP course connection
Topic 2.5: 2.5 Slave Auctions and the Domestic Slave Trade