Created & edited by Steve Armstrong Slavery and the South The Age of Jackson Created & edited by Steve Armstrong SHS, 1994-2006
Cotton and Other Crops
Slave population, 1790
Slave population, 1830
Slave population, 1860
Slave Population growth
Slavery’s Spread
Plantation Layout
Slave life
Picking Cotton
Black Sawyer
Slave seller’s business
Pro-slavery cartoons
Minstrel Show
Anti-slavery card
Whites and Slaves in South
Slave Owners and Slaves
Women and Anti-Slavery
Underground RR Map
Fugitive slaves
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.
Abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison – radical white abolitionist who was the editor of The Liberator.
David Walker A free black man who advised blacks to fight for freedom rather than wait.
Frederick Douglass Born into slavery, but knew how to read and write. Escaped to the North and wrote a slave narrative.
Nat Turner Led a slave rebellion with 80 slaves and killed 60 whites before being caught.
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
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