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The Old South and Slavery, 1830-1860

The Old South and Slavery, 1830-1860. Chapter 12. Cash Crops. Cotton is King The British Textile Industry The Cotton Gin The Removal of Indians. Cotton. Southern Climate Profit Margins Corn Production imports. The South. The Upper South The Lower South

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The Old South and Slavery, 1830-1860

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  1. The Old South and Slavery, 1830-1860 Chapter 12

  2. Cash Crops • Cotton is King • The British Textile Industry • The Cotton Gin • The Removal of Indians

  3. Cotton • Southern Climate • Profit Margins • Corn Production • imports

  4. The South • The Upper South • The Lower South • The effects of the 3/5ths Compromise • Resentment towards abolition

  5. Differences between the North and South • Southern Factories • Southern Capital • Switching to Industry • Public Education • Literacy • A Different Economy

  6. Statistics • Slave owners • Planters • Small slave owners • Yeomen • People of the Pine Barrens

  7. Plantations • A factory in the field • Cash Crops • New Land • Extending Credit • Sexual Standards

  8. Southern Whites • Small slave owners • The Yeomen • The People of the Pine Barrens

  9. Social Relations • Southern White Society • State Legislatures • Whigs • Democrats

  10. Question??? • Why did non-slave holding whites typically support slavery?

  11. The Proslavery Argument • “A positive good rather than a necessary evil” • History and Religion • Wage slaves

  12. The South • The Response to Abolition • Violence in the Old South • The Code of Honor • Southern Evangelicals

  13. Life Under Slavery • The evolution of slavery in America • Changes in African culture • The Black Population • Plantation Slaves

  14. Slave Laws • The Slave Family • Separations • Sexual Demands • The evolution of the black family

  15. Slavery • The Longevity of slaves • The slave mortality rate • Slaves off plantations

  16. The South • Free Blacks • Numbers • Laws against free blacks • Manumission

  17. Rebellion • Gabriel Prosser • Denmark Vesey • Nat Turner • Frederick Douglass • Harriet Tubman • The Underground Railroad

  18. African American Culture • English pidgin • Religion amongst African Americans • The effects of Christianity • Black Music and Dance

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