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. In late 1778 General Clinton shipped 3,000 troops from New York to Georgia and launched a Southern invasion against Savannah reinforced by 2,000 British and Loyalist troops They repelled an attack by Patriots and French naval forces which bolstered the British war effort. Lindert and Williamson argue that this antebellum period is exemplary of what economists Daron Acemoglu Simon Johnson and James A Robinson call "a reversal of fortune". Economist Thomas Sowell in his essay "The Real History of Slavery," confirms the observation made by de Tocqueville by comparing slavery in the United States to slavery in Brazil He notes that slave societies reflected similar economic trends in those and other parts of the world suggesting that the trend Lindert and Williamson identify may have continued until the American Civil War:, "Republican motherhood" became the ideal for American women exemplified by Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren; the first duty of the republican woman was to instill republican values in her children and to avoid luxury and ostentation. Prohibition against individuals holding multiple government posts, Prior to the American Revolution masters and revivalists spread Christianity to slave communities supported by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in the First Great Awakening of the mid-18th century Baptists and Methodists from New England preached a message against slavery encouraged masters to free their slaves converted both slaves and free blacks and gave them active roles in new congregations the first independent black congregations were started in the South before the Revolution in South Carolina and Georgia, In 1971 the cost of running for congress in Utah was $70,000 but costs have climbed the biggest expense is television advertisements. Today's races cost more than a million dollars for a House seat and six million or more for a Senate seat. Since fundraising is vital "members of Congress are forced to spend ever-increasing hours raising money for their re-election."[attribution needed]; 5.1 Efficiency of slaves A deliberately planned city that was built expressly to house the seat of government superseding a capital city that was in an established population center There have been various reasons for this including overcrowding in that major metropolitan area and the desire to place the capital city in a location with a better climate (usually a less tropical one). Lindert and Williamson argue that this antebellum period is exemplary of what economists Daron Acemoglu Simon Johnson and James A Robinson call "a reversal of fortune". Economist Thomas Sowell in his essay "The Real History of Slavery," confirms the observation made by de Tocqueville by comparing slavery in the United States to slavery in Brazil He notes that slave societies reflected similar economic trends in those and other parts of the world suggesting that the trend Lindert and Williamson identify may have continued until the American Civil War:. .

See also: District of Columbia retrocession and Washington D.C. in the American Civil War. On August 28 1565 St Augustine Florida was founded by the Spanish conquistador Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles and he brought three African slaves with him During the 16th and 17th centuries St Augustine was the hub of the slave trade in Spanish colonial Florida and the first permanent settlement in the continental United States to include African slaves.