1. Created & edited by Steve Armstrong
Slavery and the South
The Age of Jackson
Created & edited by Steve Armstrong
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2. Cotton and Other Crops

3. Slave population, 1790

4. Slave population, 1830

5. Slave population, 1860

6. Slave Population growth

7. Slavery’s Spread

8. Plantation Layout

9. Slave life

10. Picking Cotton

11. Black Sawyer

12. Slave seller’s business

13. Pro-slavery cartoons

14. Minstrel Show

15. Anti-slavery card

16. Whites and Slaves in South

17. Slave Owners and Slaves

18. Women and Anti-Slavery

19. Underground RR Map

20. Fugitive slaves

21. Abolitionism Abolition – the call to outlaw slavery
Emancipation – the freeing of slaves with no payment to slaveholders
Antebellum – period before the Civil War
Gag rule – rule that prevented any debate on slavery.

22. Abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison – radical white abolitionist who was the editor of The Liberator.

23. David Walker
A free black man who advised blacks to fight for freedom rather than wait.

24. Frederick Douglass
Born into slavery, but knew how to read and write. Escaped to the North and wrote a slave narrative.

25. Nat Turner
Led a slave rebellion with 80 slaves and killed 60 whites before being caught.

26. Abolitionist Movement leads to Women’s Rights Movement Cult of Domesticity – housework and childcare are only proper activities for a woman. Sarah and Angelina Grimke- abolitionists started a secondary school for girls. Sojourner Truth – former slave, changed her name, spoke for abolition and women’s rights

27. South began to defend slavery more “Slaves are happy” Slave Codes – made it illegal for slaves to read, write or own property Life for most rural slaves – still involved working on large plantations harvesting cotton