1. Enslavement during the Antebellum Period: 1815-1840 Defining the “Peculiar Institution” The Old South: Myth and Reality Paternalism The Second Middle Passage Slavery and the Nation Southern Economy Southern Farmers The Planter Class The Code of Honor Crafting the Pro-Slavery Argument John C. Calhoun and the Declaration of Independence

2. The World the Slaves Made… Slave Culture: Within the institution of white supremacy Unjustness of bondage and desire for freedom Slave Family Gender Roles Along Slaves Slave Religion The Gospel of Freedom

3. Resistance to Enslavement during the Antebellum Period Forms of Resistance Fugitive Slaves Slave Revolts 1831 Nat Turner and the Old South The Amistad 1839

4. The “Impulse of Reform” during the Antebellum Period: 1815-1840 The Impulse of Reform To improve society/ change Reform Communities Utopian Oneida The Owenites Religion and Reform Temperance Movement The Invention of the Asylum Women’s Rights/ Origins of Feminism

5. The Crusade Against the Peculiar Institution Colonization Support Non-support The Black Radical Tradition (Cedric J. Robinson, Robin D.G. Kelly) An Appeal…David Walker (introduced “Prince” in the North) The Emergence of Garrison Abolitionism and Race

6. Black and White Abolitionism Black Abolitionists James Forten Frederick Douglass Abolitionism and Race Product of time and place Who was in control? Slavery and American Freedom The Abolitionist Schism