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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Slavery and the Old South Building a Diverse Cotton Kingdom Missouri Compromise Morning: Master and Mistress in the Big House Noon: Slaves in House and Fields Night: Slaves in Their Quarters Resistance and Freedom Conclusion: Douglass’s Dream of Freedom

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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana The Diverse Cotton Kingdom Different “Souths”  Upper South  Lower South  Coastal v. pine forests v. Appalachians  Urban v.rural But all predominantly agricultural

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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana The Expansion of Slavery Economy strong, based mainly on cotton  Industrialization increased demand Gulf States now more attractive Slavery increasingly a fixed institution

Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Slavery in Latin America Widespread use of slaves  Arising from decimation of Indian populations Sugar used slave labor  Extremely harsh use of black labor  Slave population decreases Mining in Bolivia Slavery persists longer in Latin America  Abolished last in Cuba and Brazil

Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana White and Black Migrations Southerners move into Texas  Displace Native Americans and Mexicans Old tobacco and cotton fields exhausted Internal slave trade  From Virginia to the lower South  Importing slaves ended, 1808

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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Missouri Compromise Slavery an issue often sidestepped Missouri applies for admission, 1819  Northwest Ordinance had kept slavery out  Territory west of Mississippi not covered Conflict over power of Congress  Three-month debate

Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Missouri Compromise (cont'd) Compromise  Missouri to be a slave state  Maine a free state  Line between slave and free drawn at 36°30’

Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Southern Dependence on Slavery Developing rhetoric Slavery profitable  Often chosen over free white and black labor Increasing dependence on cotton

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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Slavery and Class Number of slave-holding families declined to 25%  Slavery still a mark of status  Goal is to own slaves and large plantation Middling classes  Treating blacks as inferiors raises their status Yeoman farmers

Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Slavery and Class (cont'd) 75% of southerners have no slaves  Live in isolation  Work small farms, often as tenants

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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Morning: Master and Mistress in the Big House Approach to understanding Antebellum South  Examine interactions through the day  Allows examination of separate societies

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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Justifications for Slavery Biblical – descendants of Ham Historical – as an old tradition Legal – based on Constitution Pseudoscientific – supposed racial inferiority Sociological – blacks as children Claims that “wage slaves” were worse off

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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Noon: Slaves in House and Fields Task system  For example, a certain quantity of cotton House slaves better off in material terms Poor health  Some concern for slaves as commodities Wide range of physical punishments Sexual abuse

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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Night: Slaves in Their Quarters Religion  Used by whites for control  But takes a different turn Song  Important form of expression  Theme of bondage and deliverance Family

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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Forms of Protest Breaking tools, missing work Flight  Often for short terms  Intermarriage with Seminole Indians  Underground Railroad Revolts  Demark Vesey, 1822  Nat Turner, 1831

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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Free Blacks Numbers of free blacks double  500,000 by 1860  Half in the South Urban black communities Most free blacks in the South in rural areas Churches critical in black society  Active urban communities

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Copyright ©2011, ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Seventh Edition Nash Jeffrey Howe Winkler Davis Mires Frederick Gardina Pestana Conclusion: Douglass’s Dream of Freedom Frederick Douglass  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845  Escape to freedom Many different notions of a better society  Explored in next chapter

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