Chapter 11 The Peculiar Institution
Cotton Is King The Second Middle Passage Increase of internal slave trade
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
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 11.2 Size of Slaveholdings, 1860
The Old South Northern Industry vs. Southern Paternalism The Proslavery Argument Necessary evil to positive good Bible, economy, independence and equality Racism
Free Blacks Limited Rights
Life under Slavery Slave Labor 75% of women and 90% of men in fields Gang Labor Overseer: Cotton and Sugarcane Task Labor Rice
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company Map 11.4 Major Crops of the South, 1860
Life under Slavery Slavery in the Cities More freedom Side wages and own homes Maintaining Order
Slave Culture Gender Roles among Slaves Slave Religion Christianity Used as a weapon
Slave Culture The Gospel of Freedom Exodus: Moses leads enslaved Jews to promised freedom
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