Pre-Class 12/8/09

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Pre-Class 12/8/09

• If the Constitution of the US has been written to
  support slavery, how might the south benefit from
  this?
• Write 3-5 lines in your response.
• Grab a book open to page 142 we need the map
  today

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Welcome 12/08/09

• Todays Agenda
• Pre-Class Roll
• Share Out
• Notes
• Humanitarian Trend
• Free Blacks in the South
• Change in the South
• Louisiana Purchase
• Cotton/Cotton Gin
• Humanitarianism to racism
• Final Thoughts

• Todays Objective
• To learn about how slavery changed in post
  rev-war South.

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North vs. South Post Rev. War

• North
• Post-war accepts humanitarian/anti-slavery ideas
  (widespread)
• Creates system of gradual emancipation

• South
• Minimally affected by humanitarian/anti-slavery
  ideas
• Upholds slavery, but embraces liberal (more
  lenient) manumission laws

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Upper South vs. Deep South

• Trends that we see
• Upper South typically supports slavery, but
  allows some freed slaves
• More affected by humanitarian ideas post rev-war
• Deep South is fervently devoted to slavery
• Manumission Laws legal freeing of slaves
• Traditionally slaves were freed by deed or will
  based on the slaves merit (was a good slave)
• Post-war trends,
• slaves were allowed to buy their freedom
• Non-profitable crop raising slaves set free

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Free Blacks by the Numbers

• Most free blacks of the south were in the Upper
  South (Maryland, Virginia, etc.)
• Post War Years Free Black Population Expansion
• Maryland 8,000 to 40,000 free blacks
• Virginia 13,000 to 37,000 free blacks
• Deep South Restricted Manumission Laws
• Deep South (Carolinas, Georgia, etc.) 20,000 free
  blacks
• Only freed illegitimate children of whites, those
  unable to work, and favorites.

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Changes to the South

• The South and their treatment of slavery changed
  and hardened due to a few key factors
• Emergence of Cotton/Cotton Gin
• Louisiana Purchase
• Internal Slave Trade

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Cotton the New Cash Crop Boom

• Cotton became popular in Britain around the turn
  of the century (1800)
• Britain had high demand for raw cotton
• Textile mills in Britain
• Around 1790 US produces about 3,000 bales.
• Difficult to harvest/process
• Time consuming, requires a lot of labor

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What Makes Cotton Boom?

• Up until 1793, cotton is seen as a low-profit
  crop.
• After 1793, Cotton Becomes a hugely popular and
  high profit crop
• How?!?!
• THE INVENTION OF THE COTTON GIN!

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Before the Cotton Gin
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With the Cotton Gin
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Why do people invent things?
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Cotton Gin Revolutionizes the Industry

• Makes processing of cotton, quicker and easier
• US can now produce more cotton
• US exports of cotton goes from 3,000 bales to
  178,000 bales in 20 years.
• The US now stands to make TONS of money in trade
• Lords of the Lash and Lords of the Loom join
  forces
• Proslavery ideas increase due to greed and money

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Impact on Slavery

• Cotton gin makes processing easier
• Less slave labor required
• How can the slave owners of the south make use of
  the extra slave labor, and get the most out of
  cotton at the same time?

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Impact on Slavery

• Cotton gin makes processing easier
• Less slave labor required
• How can the slave owners of the south make use of
  the extra slave labor, and get the most out of
  cotton at the same time?
• Plantations Expand! More land for cotton, more
  work for excess slaves.

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Louisiana Purchase

• 1803 France sells their territories in North
  America to the US.
• Cotton Plantations Expand Westward

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Pre-Class 12/09/09

• How did the Louisiana Purchase play a part in the
  Cotton Boom?
• What did it allow to happen?
• 5 lines please

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Welcome 12/9/09

• Announcements/HW
• You are starting a project today. Your homework
  is to complete part of it tonight.
• See the back side of the Project sheet DAY 1 HW

• Todays Agenda
• Pre-Class Roll
• Share Out
• Wrap Up Notes
• Introduce/Start Project
• Final Thoughts/HW

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What about the areas that didnt grow Cotton?

• How would the success of Cotton affect the rest
  of the south?

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What about the areas that didnt grow Cotton?

• How would the success of Cotton affect the rest
  of the south?
• How could the rest of the south make money off of
  the Cotton boom? What could they provide?

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What about the areas that didnt grow Cotton?

• How would the success of Cotton affect the rest
  of the south?
• How could the rest of the south make money off of
  the Cotton boom? What could they provide?
• Internal Slave Trade
• Old Slave States/Upper South States begin to sell
  their excess labor
• Slaves are Sold South
• Relocation (Phase 6 of the African Slave Trade)
• Turn to Page 151 Figure 5-1

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From Humanitarianism to Racism

• Humanitarian Ideas, Manumission laws forgotten
  over time
• Success of Cotton creates greed
• Value of slaves increase
• North and South proslavery sentiments grow due to
  profit
• Value of property rights and order over equality
  of rights
• Race used to justify slavery
• Jefferson Notes on State of Virginia blacks are
  inferior in mind and body (1780s)
• 1770s Scholars begin to propose blacks as a
  separate species closer to apes than whites.
• Black people were unsuited for
  freedom/citizenship South embraces popular
  anti-Enlightened ideals

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Pre-Class (7th Period)

• What is a comic?
• What is a comic strip?
• Why do people read comics?
• 3 lines please

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NOW ON TO THE PROJECT!!!
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Lets talk about comics

• Why do people read comics or comic
  strips?What do comic strips tell us?Give me
  an example of a comic/comic strip.

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Lets Talk about Comics

• Comic strips can tell us a storyComic strips
  can teach us a lessonComic strips entertain
  usComic strips express opinionsComic strips
  are works of art

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Examples of Comic Strips

• Calvin and Hobbes
• The story of a boy (Calvin) and his imaginary
  friend Hobbes (the tiger).
• Makes observations on life, teaches philosophy,
  entertains us, etc.

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Examples of Comic Strips

• Comic artists arent always amazing artists.
• Stick figures can be art as well
• Sometimes simple yet neat artwork can suit a
  comic.

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Examples of Comic Strips

• Maus
• By Art Spiegelman
• Tells story of the Holocaust
• Jews as mice Nazis as cats
• Notice the use of narrator dialogue

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A Comic Strip about Charles Ball

• Who was Charles Ball?
• Charles Ball was born into slavery in Maryland
  near the end of the 18th century, the son of a
  kidnapped African. When he was close to thirty
  years old, he was sold away from his wife and
  children to work on the cotton plantations of
  Georgia. Cotton was a major money maker thanks to
  the invention of the Cotton Gin. Many slaves like
  Charles Ball were sold south during the weeping
  season a time when harvest season in the upper
  south was low, and cotton harvest season was high
  in the deep south. Upper south slave owners sold
  south their extra slaves to make more money
  this split up many families (hence the weeping).

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A Comic Strip about Charles Ball

• Your Task Create a comic strip that
  successfully tells the story of Charles Ball life
  as a slave who has been sold south.
• How will I do this?
• Read/analyze Charles Balls primary source
• Complete rough draft work inspired by primary
  source.
• Use rough draft to create a final draft
• Present your beautiful art to others!