The mortgages usually consisted of recognition of a debt by the debtor and a description of the debt and the property being mortgaged and the time and means by which the mortgaged
property had been purchased. Banks all over the South allowed slaveholders to use their slaves
as collateral. -

Me! will mark brainiest! essential questions: • for what reasons will one group of people exploit another? focus questions: • what influenced the development of the south more: geography, economy or slavery? • what were the economic, political and social arguments for and against slavery in the first half of the 19th century?