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Chapter 10: The South and Slavery

Chapter 10: The South and Slavery. King Cotton. 1820. 1860. 1820. 1860. King Cotton. Slaveholding and Class Structure. Elite Middle class yeoman Poor. Population Patterns in the South, 1850 In six southern states, slaves comprised over 40 percent of the total population.

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Chapter 10: The South and Slavery

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  1. Chapter 10: The South and Slavery

  2. King Cotton

  3. 1820

  4. 1860

  5. 1820 1860

  6. King Cotton

  7. Slaveholding and Class Structure Elite Middle class yeoman Poor

  8. Population Patterns in the South, 1850In six southern states, slaves comprised over 40 percent of the total population.

  9. Southern Pro-slavery Propaganda

  10. Wanted gradual emancipation Quakers and Upper south slave owners Shipped off to Liberia Failed miserably American Colonization Society

  11. Fredrick Douglass Political rights Use constitution 2. William Lloyd Garrison Liberator Nonviolence and passive resistence Abolitionists

  12. “Gag Rule”

  13. church

  14. Independent farmers Bartered services Rags to riches White privilege Yeoman

  15. Middles class Inherited wealth

  16. Defense of Slavery • No debates on subject of slavery • No alternative labor systems • Decreased cooperation in national politics= no compromising by the south!

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