The South Slavery

1. The South & Slavery Instructor: Carol Jean Cox

2. THE SOUTH & SLAVERY  The Peculiar Institution The Cotton Economy The Political Debate Moral Questions The Crusade Against Slavery

3. THE SOUTH & SLAVERY  "THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION" 1/4 of white families ever owned slaves only 12% owned 20 slaves Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence many leaders denounced slavery as incompatible with revolution Jefferson�s hope that the institution would wither away economic depression of tobacco after revolution encouraged anti-slavery sentiment

4. THE SOUTH & SLAVERY  THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION Varieties of Slavery Slave Codes� Paternal Relationship Life Under Slavery Work Conditions High Mortality Rates Sexual Abuse Slavery in the Cities Relative Autonomy of Urban Slaves Free Blacks� New Restrictions on Manumission Slave Adaptation and Resistance

5. THE SOUTH & SLAVERY  THE COTTON ECONOMY� The Rise of King Cotton Declining Tobacco Economy� Increasing Cotton Cultivation Rapid Expansion of Slavery Southern Trade and Industry� Obstacles to Economic Development Southern White Society The Planter Class Planter Aristocracy�s Dominance The Aristocratic Ideal The �Southern Lady� Female Sub-ordinance Reinforced The Plain Folk Inadequate Educational Opportunities

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8. THE SOUTH & SLAVERY  THE POLITICAL DEBATE Northwest Ordinance No slavery in new states Missouri Compromise 1820 1836 "Gag rule" in Congress refusing to consider petitions relating to slavery J.Q. Adams

10. THE SOUTH & SLAVERY  MORAL QUESTIONS Christianity strong religious statements against human bondage Whirlwind evangelistic campaigns through N.E. West Theodore Dwight Weld (convert of Charles Finney) Famous Lanes Debate 18 days & nights conversion of student body at Lanes Seminary

11. THE SOUTH & SLAVERY  THE CRUSADE AGAINST SLAVERY Early Opposition to Slavery American Colonization Society Liberia 1820 Anti-Slavery Society 1000 local antislavery societies with 100,000 members pamphlets sent to south The Growth of Abolitionism before 1830 organized anti slavery movement small British Parliament's widely-publicized debates against slavery in early 30's

12. THE SOUTH & SLAVERY  THE CRUSADE AGAINST SLAVERY Agitators William Lloyd Garrison "The Liberator� �I am in earnest--I will not equivocate-- I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch-- and I will be heard.� Harriet Beecher Stowe �Uncle Tom�s Cabin�

13. THE SOUTH & SLAVERY  THE CRUSADE AGAINST SLAVERY Agitators David Walker - black cloth dealer "The Appeal" Elijah Lovejoy - killed Frederick Douglass Violent Uprisings

14. The South & Slavery Instructor: Carol Jean Cox