Plantations and Slavery Spread

1. Plantations and Slavery Spread

2. I. The Cotton Boom

3. A. The Cotton Gin

4. B. Eli Whitney • Cotton was becoming too unprofitable • One slave could only clean one pound of cotton a day • He invented a cotton gin (engine) • Now one slave could clean 50 pounds a day

5. How the Cotton Gin Works

6. C. Effects of the Cotton Gin • People began to move west • People began to grow more cotton • More Native Americans were pushed off their land • Slavery increased

7. II. Slavery Expands

8. With the increase in cotton production came an increase in slavery

9. III. Slavery Divides the South

10. Cotton Production in the South

11. White Population of the South Plantation Owners Small Farmers Poor Whites Called Planters – Very Rich Called Yeoman- Plain folk Did not own land Less than 10 % of population Worked along side slaves 15% of White Population Had 20 or More slaves 75% of population

12. African Americans In the South Free Slaves Could not vote 1/3 of total Southern population Either born free or Freed by their master Most worked as Field hands Could not travel Feared being kidnapped and Sold into slavery

17. IV. Finding Strength in Religion

18. Slave Religion • Some slaveholders used religion to make slaves accept their treatment • Slaves were inspired by the stories of Moses and folk tales • Slaves expressed their religion through religious folk songs called spirituals

19. V. Slave Rebellions

20. Nat Turner’s Rebellion • Led the most famous of rebellions • 8/21/31 Turner and 70 followers killed 55 • Most of Turner’s men were captured or killed when they ran out of ammo • Turner was caught and hanged

21. Effects of Turner’s Rebellion • 200 African Americans were killed in revenge • Laws were passed to keep slaves and free African Americans from buying guns or alcohol • Slaves could not hold religious services w/out a white person • Anti-slavery publications were banned