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Antebellum South

Antebellum South. APUSH. “If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens around your own.”. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Missouri Compromise, 1820. Antebellum Southern Society. Characteristics of Antebellum South. Primarily agrarian Cotton is King

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Antebellum South

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  1. Antebellum South APUSH

  2. “If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens around your own.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

  3. Missouri Compromise, 1820

  4. Antebellum Southern Society

  5. Characteristics of Antebellum South • Primarily agrarian • Cotton is King • Very slow development of industrialization • Rudimentary financial system • Inadequate transportation system

  6. Southern Society (1850) 6 million Total US population = 23 million (9,250,000 in the South = 40%)

  7. Southern Population (1860)

  8. Antebellum Southern Economy

  9. Southern Agriculture

  10. Slaves Picking Cotton on a Plantation

  11. Slaves Using the Cotton Gin

  12. Value of Cotton Exports

  13. The South’s “Peculiar Institution”

  14. Slave Auction Notice, 1823

  15. Slave Auction: Charleston, SC - 1856

  16. Mistreatment of Slaves Slave Master Brands Slave Muzzle

  17. Slave Leg Irons Slave Tag: SC Slave Shoes

  18. Anti-Slave Pamphlet

  19. Antebellum Southern Plantation Life

  20. Slave Owning Population (1850)

  21. Slave Owning Families (1850)

  22. The Ledger of John White • Matilda Selby (9) $400 sold to Mr. Covington for $425 • Brooks Selby (19) $750 left at Home (crazy) • Fred McAfee (22) $800 sold to Donaldsonville for $1200 • Howard Barnett (25) $750 runaway, sold out of jail $540 • Harriett Barnett (17) $550 sold to Davenport & Jones for $900

  23. Slave Resistance & Uprisings

  24. Runaway Slave Ads

  25. Slave Rebellions in the Antebellum South Gabriel Prosser, 1800 Denmark Vesey, 1824

  26. Slave Rebellions in the Antebellum South Nat Turner, 1831

  27. Southern Pro-slavery Propaganda

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