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Chapter 11 The Peculiar Institution
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Cotton Is King The Second Middle Passage Increase of internal slave trade
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The Old South Slavery and the Nation Touched all Americans The Southern Economy Upper South: slavery/manufacturing Deep South: cotton Classes -self-sufficient farmers -Small slaveholders -Plantation owners
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 11.2 Size of Slaveholdings, 1860
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The Old South Northern Industry vs. Southern Paternalism The Proslavery Argument Necessary evil to positive good Bible, economy, independence and equality Racism
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Free Blacks Limited Rights
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Life under Slavery Slave Labor 75% of women and 90% of men in fields Gang Labor Overseer: Cotton and Sugarcane Task Labor Rice
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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 11.4 Major Crops of the South, 1860
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Life under Slavery Slavery in the Cities More freedom Side wages and own homes Maintaining Order
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Slave Culture Gender Roles among Slaves Slave Religion Christianity Used as a weapon
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Slave Culture The Gospel of Freedom Exodus: Moses leads enslaved Jews to promised freedom
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Resistance to Slavery The Amistad Slave revolt Quincy Adams defended Nat Turner’s Rebellion Killed dozens of whites before execution Strengthened Northern and Southern views
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