The South

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The South Slavery

• Instructor Carol Jean Cox

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THE SOUTH SLAVERY

• The Peculiar Institution
• The Cotton Economy
• The Political Debate
• Moral Questions
• The Crusade Against Slavery

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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
• Jeffersons hope that the institution would
  wither away
• economic depression of tobacco after revolution
  encouraged anti-slavery sentiment

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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

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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 Aristocracys Dominance
• The Aristocratic Ideal
• The Southern Lady
• Female Sub-ordinance Reinforced
• The Plain Folk
• Inadequate Educational Opportunities

The Business of Slavery (Library of Congress)
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THE SOUTH SLAVERY
Slavery and Cotton in the South, 1820
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THE SOUTH SLAVERY
Slavery and Cotton in the South, 1860
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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

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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

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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

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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 Toms Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe
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THE SOUTH SLAVERY

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

Frederick Douglass (Portrait Gallery)
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The South Slavery

• Instructor Carol Jean Cox