WELCOME 10/28/09

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WELCOME 10/28/09

• Todays Pre-Class
• What ideas do you associate with Southern
  Slavery?What do you already know, or think you
  already know?
• 3-5 lines please

• Todays Agenda
• Pre-Class Roll
• Wrap up North
• Cover the South
• Final Thoughts HW

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SECTION ONE LABOR

• Vocab term Plantation Agriculture
• Agriculture on a large scale.
• 50 Slaves to every 100 acres of farmland
• Larger workforce larger output more
• Carolinas Cash crops
• Rice grown in marsh/swamp areas African
  Expertise
• Indigo grown in drier land areas
• Year round agriculture Constant Demand for
  Labor
• Rice peaks in low seasons of indigo
• Indigo peaks in low seasons of rice

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SECTION 1 CONTINUED RELATIONS

• Relation between master and slave was
  non-existent
• Separation of planters (landowners) and their
  slaves
• Planters enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle that came
  directly from the exploitation of slaves.
• Southern gentry leisure lifestyle
• Southern gentleman dont work, they manage, and
  relax

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SECTION 2 SLAVE POPULATION

• Carolinas on the whole
• 21 (Slaves Whites) ratio
• 20,000 slaves to 10,000 whites 1730
• In the plantation areas (low-lands), ratio
  shifts
• 91 (Slaves Whites) ratio
• THINK BACK TO BARBADOS (101 ratio)

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SECTION 3 SOCIETAL ORDER

• Southern slave codes based on Caribbean Slave
  System
• Similar ideas based on fear of large slave
  populations
• Ex Travel with permission slip only
• Ex Burning at stake, lynching, as punishments
• Ex Slaves couldnt own weapons
• Ex Education forbidden
• Ex Couldnt meet in groups with other slaves
• Ex Slaves given Sundays off Masters take guns
  to church in case of rebellion

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SECTION 4 AFRICAN CULTURE

• A Swiss newcomer noted that the low-country
  seemed more like a negro country than a country
  settled by white people. remember our 91
  ratio
• Gullah Language Coastal Carolina Language
• Mixture of English and African words with an
  African Grammatical structure
• Still spoken in some parts of the Carolinas
• Rice as an African Expertise
• Senegambia was known for rice
• European slavers observed this and used this
  knowledge to grow a familiar African cash crop.
• Less time spent training African laborers,
  increased profits

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WRAP UP/HOMEWORK DUE TOMORROW

• On the back of your notes page, answer the
  following on the lines provided (attach
  additional paper as needed)
• Describe how the culture of the Northern vs.
  Southern colonies and the number of slaves in
  each region affected the treatment of the
  slaves.
• Requirements 2 paragraphs, (one on culture, one
  on slave population) Minimum of 10 total
  sentences.