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1 Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe The Two Nations of the 1850’s and the Conflict over the “Peculiar Institution”

2 The Socio-Economic System of the Antebellum South The Southern landscape. Low urbanization and dispersed population. Neglect of manufacturing: northern dependence. The socio-economic system: “King” cotton. Paternalism, the class system, and localism. Industrial agriculture and the plantation complex as a production unit. Slaves as property and workers. The internal slave trade and breeding slaves. The sociology of slavery. The plantation as a closed world. The brutalizing nature of slave ownership.

3 Industrial Expansion and Northern Society The 1850’s boom in industry. New technology and rising industrial output. Mechanics and tinkerers: industrial innovation. Corporate beginnings: general incorporation. Workers and the society of the factory. The stratification of labor: skilled vs. unskilled. The Sinews of Industry: shipping, railroads, and raw materials Steam and sailing packets: regular shipping. Railroad expansion:the “call” and “land grant” systems. Western agriculture and the industrial connection.

4 Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass: Man and icon. Douglass’ early life in slavery. Slave revolts and escapes: the Underground Railroad. Douglass as anti-slavery icon. Douglass and abolitionism. Garrison, Douglass and Weld: pioneers and the new approach to abolitionism. Douglass’ Narrative and personal fame. The Fugitive Slave Act.

5 Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe’s life as middle class icon. “Young Hatty” and the northern middle class. The ambivalent role of women in reform. Radicalized abolitionism. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The effects of propaganda on northern opinion. The birth of the Republican Party.

6 The March to Civil War The Young America movement. Stephen Douglass and the Transcontinental Railroad. The Kansas Nebraska Act. “Bleeding Kansas” and the territories fight in action. Buchanan and the Lecompton Constitution. The Final Straws. Dred Scot and the revocation of rights. John Brown and the raid on Harper’s Ferry.

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