How did the Founding Fathers handle, ignore or sweep aside the issue of slavery in their quest for freedom and liberty?
             Kenneth M. Stampp's The Peculiar Institution; Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South offers an unbiased look into the atypical form of labor implemented in the Deep South, while Clinton Rossiter's; The First American Revolution gives a "wide eyed" glimpse mainly on religion, economic, and social plateaus experienced by the of the colonists until the Revolution and skims slightly over the social issue of slavery of this time frame.
             Slavery in the South defined the very meaning of economic and social bases of the Revolutionary era. The quest of how the South was able to maintain economic stablility and reach socially balanced plateaus is was what defined the lives of many people. The South's economic base was highly dependent on the use of slaves, as it was almost their complete labor force.
             In The Peculiar Institution, Stampp explains every facet of slavery from a dispassionate and impartial point of view. He explains the economic advantages that the southern farmers had by using this system of labor. In addition to explaining the southern farmers standpoint, Kenneth Stamp also shows the struggles of the slaves themselves, struggles from their bondage, their escapes, and how they lived their lives.
             In order to fully comprehend how slavery originated, it is essential to know the setting in which it took place. The south was perfect for cultivation. It had hot weather with long growing seasons, quality soil, and navigable rivers. It was ideal for commercial agriculture and it based its whole economy on its harvest. If the southern economy was based on farming and crops the move by many southerners to large farms and plantations was logical, the more crops you grow the more financially successful you are.
             These large landholdings are the root of where slavery orig
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