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Chapter 16: The South and Slavery

King Cotton

1820

1860

King Cotton

Slavery and the Economy 1. Slavery produced 95% of exports from Amer. to GB 2. Increase in population = increase demand for goods 3. Profits allowed for growth of other industries i.e. banks, ins. co., shipping 4. raw cotton = Industrial Revolution (IR) 5. Impact Cotton gin? 6. Diversified southern economy? 1793

Economically & Ethnically Speaking?

Characteristics of the Antebellum South 1.Primarily agrarian. 2.Economic power shifted from the “upper South” to the “lower South.” 3.“Cotton Is King!” * 1860  5 mil. bales a yr. (57% of total US exports). 4.Very slow development of industrialization. 5.Rudimentary financial system. 6.Inadequate transportation system.

Slaveholders 1850 What’s life like for 64% of the southern population? Contrast that with the 2.5% Those in-between the two? For crackers” and “clay eaters?” So why defend slavery? Who were the “mountain whites?”

Tara – Plantation Reality or Myth? Hollywood’s Version?

A Real Georgia Plantation

Slaves posing in front of their cabin on a Southern plantation.

A Slave Family

The Ledger of John White J Matilda Selby, 9, $ sold to Mr. Covington, St. Louis, $ J Brooks Selby, 19, $ Left at Home – Crazy J Fred McAfee, 22, $ Sold to Pepidal, Donaldsonville, $ J Howard Barnett, 25, $ Ranaway. Sold out of jail, $ J Harriett Barnett, 17, $ Sold to Davenport and Jones, Lafourche, $900.00

Population Patterns in the South, 1850 In six southern states, slaves comprised over 40 percent of the total population.

Free Blacks: Slaves Without Masters South  250,000 by 1860  Emancipation  Emancipated “mulattoes”  Bought freedom  Some slave owners  Prohibited from certain occupations  Not allowed to testify against whites in court North  Not allowed in some states  No suffrage  No public school  Hated by Irish; jobs  Against expansion of slavery due to racism, not morality issue  Strong antiblack sentiment

Early Emancipation in the North

Southern Agriculture

Slaves Picking Cotton on a Mississippi Plantation

Slave Auction: Charleston, SC-1856

Slave Master Brands Slave Accoutrements Slave muzzle

Anti-Slave Pamphlet

Slave tag, SC Slave Accoutrements Slave leg irons Slave shoes

Distribution of Slave Labor in 1850

Slave Auction Notice, 1823

Bellegrove Plantation, Donaldsville, La.

Oak Alley Plantation, La.

Slave Quarters

Slave Resistance 2.Refusal to work hard. 3.Isolated acts of sabotage. 4.Escape via the Underground Railroad.

Runaway Slave Ads

Quilt Patterns as Secret Messages The Monkey Wrench pattern, on the left, alerted escapees to gather up tools and prepare to flee; the Drunkard Path design, on the right, warned escapees not to follow a straight route.

Slave Rebellions Throughout the Americas

Slave Rebellions in the Antebellum South South Carolina 1822 Gabriel Prosser Virginia 1800

Slave Rebellions in the Antebellum South: Nat Turner, Va. 1831

The Culture of Slavery 1.Black Christianity [Baptists or Methodists]: * more emotional worship services. * negro spirituals. 2.“Pidgin” or Gullah languages. 3.Nuclear family with extended kin links, where possible. 4.Importance of music in their lives. [esp. spirituals].

American Colonization Society, Wanted gradual emancipation 2. Quakers and Upper south slave owners 3. Shipped off to Liberia 4. Supported by Lincoln 5. Failed miserably

Southern Slavery--> An Aberration? J 1780s: 1 st antislavery society created in Phila. J By 1804: slavery eliminated from last northern state. J 1807: the legal termination of the slave trade, enforced by the Royal Navy. J 1820s: newly indep. Republics of Central & So. America declared their slaves free. J 1833: slavery abolished throughout the British Empire. J 1844: slavery abolished in the Fr. colonies. J 1861: the serfs of Russia were emancipated.

Abolitionists 1. Fredrick Douglass a. Political rights b. Use constitution 2. William Lloyd Garrison a. Liberator b. Nonviolence and passive resistence

Anti-Slavery Society 1833 Wendell Phillips

David Walker 1829 Sojourner Truth

Slavery Was Less Efficient in the U. S. than Elsewhere  High cost of keeping slaves from escaping.  GOAL  raise the “exit cost.”  Slave patrols.  Southern Black Codes.  Cut off a toe or a foot.

Southern Pro-slavery Propaganda

“Gag Rule” 1836

The South and Abolitionist material?

The North and Abolitionist material? “Broadcloth Mob”

Defense of Slavery  No debates on subject of slavery  No alternative labor systems  Decreased cooperation in national politics= no compromising by the south!