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Harmony and Tension in a Slave Society Mr. Bach Hudson High School Accelerated U.S. History

Southern Society (1850) “Slavocracy” [plantation owners] The “Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers] 6,000,000 Black Freemen Black Slaves 3,200, ,000 Total US Population  23,000,000 [9,250,000 in the South = 40%]

Southern Population

Slave-Owning Population (1850)

Slave-Owning Families (1850)

WHAT PROVIDED THE PHILOSOPHICAL JUSTIFICATION FOR SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH?

Southern Pro-Slavery Propaganda

Slave Rebellions in the Antebellum South 1822 Gabriel Prosser 1800

Slave Rebellions in the Antebellum South: Nat Turner, 1831

WHY DIDN’T AFRICAN-AMERICANS LAUNCH MORE FULL- SCALE SLAVE REBELLIONS?

Slave Resistance “SAMBO” pattern of behavior used as a charade in front of whites [the innocent, laughing black man caricature – bulging eyes, thick lips, big smile, etc.].

Slave Resistance Refusal to work hard. Isolated acts of sabotage. Escape via the Underground Railroad.

WHY WAS SLAVERY NOT NECESSARY IN THE NORTH BY THE EARLY 19 TH CENTURY?

Early Emancipation in the North

WHY DID SLAVERY BECOME SO ENTRENCHED IN THE SOUTH?