Slavery’s Impact on the White South John Sacher University of Central Florida continued
Slavery’s Importance Slavery “is incorporated with every fiber of our social and political existence.” (James Henry Hammond, 1860) Slavery “has fashioned our modes of life, and determined all our habits of thought and feeling and molded the very type of our civilization.” Benjamin Palmer (1860)
Second Great Awakening
Baptist Church
Methodist Circuit Riders
The Bible and Slavery
Josiah Nott, Types of Mankind
Good Society Argument
Missouri Compromise
John C. Calhoun Exposition and Protest (1828) Nullification
Nullification Enforcing the Tariff 1833 Tariff
The Gag Rule “Am I gagged or am I not?” Representative John Quincy Adams responding to the gag rule in the House of Representatives, May 25, 1836
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
Fire Eaters
Dueling Dueling
John L. Wilson, The Code of Honor
The Sumner Brooks Affair
Yeoman—A funny word Yeoman (plural Yeomen) Not Yoeman, nor Yo-Man, nor Yowman Definition—An independent farmer. –What makes one independent? –What makes one a farmer? –Did yeomen own slaves? Another definition “A self-working farmer” –What percentage of the South’s population were Yeomen?
Yeoman Farmer
Dog Trot House
White Southern Unity(?) 1. Race 2. Politics 3. Economic Relationships 4. Social Mobility 5. Kinship
John C. Calhoun “With us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black; and all the former the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals.”
Yeomen in Politics
Andrew Jackson’s Houses