Cotton, Slavery and the South

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Cotton, Slavery and the South

• Chapter 11

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The Cotton Economy

• Crop Shifts
• Tobacco
• Rice

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• Sugar
• Long-Staple (Sea Island) Cotton
• Short-Staple Cotton

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King Cotton Emerges

• advent of the cotton gin made Short-Staple cotton
  much easier to produce

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• Social Demand
• Spread

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• by 1820
• by 1850
• by 1860
• at the start of the Civil War Cotton constituted
  nearly two thirds of the total export trade of
  the USA and was bringing in 200 million a year

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• Social impact
• whites
• Blacks

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Southern Trade and Industry

• Other business areas

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• Commercial sector
• Transportation

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Southern Society and Culture

• Philisophical Grandations
• Actual Gradations

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Fake Smile

• Social Stratification among whites
• most farmers were dependent on the system

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The Peculiar Institution

• Slave Codes
• forbade slaves

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• Slave Codes Contd
• If a master killed a slave, the act was generally
  not considered a crime

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• Size Mattered
• Large vs. Small Plantations

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• Slave Life
• Workday
• (in house) slaves lived/worked closely to master
• slave women

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• Slave Life Contd
• Enough
• Health

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• Slave Life Contd
• Slavery in the Cities
• rare

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• Slave Life Contd
• Free African Americans
• 250,000 free African Americans in slaveholding
  states at the start of the Civil War
• Slave Trade
• professional business of slave traders

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• Slave Life Contd
• Slave Trade Contd
• Acceptance and Rebellion
• at two extremes, slavery could produce two very
  different reactions

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The Culture of Slavery

• Language and Music
• language sometimes incorporated African speech
  patterns into English

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• Religion
• Slaves became Christian (Baptist or Methodist)
  due to missionary efforts

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• Family Structure
• marriage not legal

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