1. Plantations & Slavery Spread

2. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin

3. The Cotton Gin Cleans Cotton Faster: It removed the seeds from the fibers

4. Cotton Crops Increased

5. To Grow More Cotton The South Needed More Land & Slaves

6. Resisting Slavery by meeting secretly at night

7. Hidden Resistance in the Bible’s story of Moses

8. Resistance Through Religion & Family

9. Resisting Slavery by armed rebellion: Like Turner’s Rebellion

10. Resistance By Escaping

11. 8% of Southern Blacks were free

12. House Servants & Craftsmen

13. Plantations & Slavery Review EEEEli Whitney’s Cotton Gin increased the production of cotton IIIIncreased cotton meant increased slavery SSSSlaves resisted by… RRRRebelling like Nat Turner RRRRelying on family & religion for strength RRRRunning away to escape slavery AAAA small number of Southern blacks were free