Plantations & Slavery Spread
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin Cleans Cotton Faster: It removed the seeds from the fibers
Cotton Crops Increased
To Grow More Cotton The South Needed More Land & Slaves
Resisting Slavery by meeting secretly at night
Hidden Resistance in the Bible’s story of Moses
Resistance Through Religion & Family
Resisting Slavery by armed rebellion: Like Turner’s Rebellion
Resistance By Escaping
8% of Southern Blacks were free
House Servants & Craftsmen
Plantations & Slavery Review EEEEli Whitney’s Cotton Gin increased the production of cotton IIIIncreased cotton meant increased slavery SSSSlaves resisted by… RRRRebelling like Nat Turner RRRRelying on family & religion for strength RRRRunning away to escape slavery AAAA small number of Southern blacks were free