1. THE SOUTH AND THE SLAVERY CONTROVERSY 1793 - 1860

2. COTTON IS KING COTTON GIN = DEMAND FOR SLAVERY COTTON = DOMINANT SOUTHERN CROP COTTON KINGDOM ---- AGRICULTURAL FACTORY MORE SLAVES / LAND COTTON = ½ VALUE OF AMERICAN EXPORTS AFTER 1840 ½ THE WORLDS COTTON ---- BRITAIN (75%)

3. PLANTER “ARISTOCRACY” SOUTH OLIGARCHY ---- GOVERNMENT BY FEW 1,733 FAMILIES OWNED MORE THAN 100 SLAVES POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LEADERSHIP WIDENED GAP BETWEEN THE RICH AND POOR WOMEN STAFF – FEMALE SLAVES

4. SLAVE SYSTEM “LAND BUTCHERY” PUSH WEST INSTABILITY OF PLANTATION SYSTEM OVERSPECULATE – LAND / SLAVES SLAVES = HEAVY INVESTMENT $1,200 CROP STABILITY REPELLED EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION MOST ANGLO-SAXON

5. WHITE MAJORITY ¼ OWNED SLAVES OR BELONGED TO SLAVEHOLDING FAMILY POOR / NON-SLAVEHOLDING “POOR WHITE TRASH” – “HILLBILLIES” – “CRACKERS” MOUNTAIN WHITES ANDREW JOHNSON

6. FREE BLACKS 1860 --- THIRD RACE 250,000 FREE BLACKS = SOUTH MULATTOES – MIX PURCHASED FREEDOM OWNED PROPERTY NEW ORLEANS DISCRIMINATION UNPOPULAR IN THE NORTH 250,000 DISCRIMINATION IRISH FREDRICK DOUGLAS

7. TRADE SLAVE TRADED ENDED IN 1808 WEST AFRICAN SQUADRON SEIZED SLAVE SHIPS = FREED THOUSANDS “BLACK IVORY” = SMUGGLED INTERNAL = NATURAL REPRODUCTION PRIMARY FORM OF WEALTH = SOUTH BREEDERS PROMISED FREEDOM MASTERS = FATHERING FAMILIES SEPARATED

8. SLAVE LIFE DAWN TO DUSK NO CIVIL OR POLITICAL RIGHTS FLOGGINGS = WHIP BREAKERS RELIGION RESPONSORIAL = AMENS BLACK BELT DEEP SOUTH SOUTH CAROLINA / GEORGIA TO ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA MISSISSIPPI = 75% FAMILY LIFE MORE STABLE

9. BONDAGE DENIED AN EDUCATION LAWS PASSED SLOWED WORK = “LAZINESS” SABOTAGE / POISON RUNAWAYS NAT TURNER AMISTAD = 1839 SPANISH SLAVE SHIP SEIZED SHIP COAST OF CUBA TRIED TO SAIL BACK TO AFRICA ENDED UP IN LONG ISLAND EVENTUALLY FREED

10. ABOLITION QUAKERS 2 ND GREAT AWAKENING AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY = 1817 TRANSPORT SLAVES BACK TO AFRICA LIBERIA 15,000 ABRAHAM LINCOLN LANE REBELS LANE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY THEODORE DWIGHT WELD OHIO 18 DAY DEBATE = ANTISLAVERY GOSPEL EXPELLED

11. RADICAL ABOLITION WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON THE LIBERATOR = BROADSIDE STERN / UNCOMPROMISING RADICAL AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY SOJOURNER TRUTH FREED N.Y. EMANCIPATION / WOMEN’S RIGHTS

12. RADICAL ABOLITION CONT. FREDRICK DOUGLAS FREED SLAVE = 1838 ELOQUENT / SPEAKER THE NORTH STAR NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDRICK DOUGLAS USED POLITICS TO PROMOTE ABOLITION

13. THE SOUTH LASHES BACK  AFTER 1832 THE SOUTH HOLDS TIGHTLY ONTO SLAVERY VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE DEBATES EMANCIPATION PROPOSALS DEFEATS PROPOSALS = TURNING POINT REBELLIONS / NULLIFICATION CRISIS GAG RESOLUTION ANTISLAVERY APPEALS = TABLED WITHOUT DEBATE DESTROYED ABOLITIONIST PROPAGANDA