2. Opening Day for
Cincinnati Reds
1869

3. But don’t forget about
The Tribe!
1915

4. Ch. 14.4
People of the South

5. Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, 1791 Actually invented by a slave!

6. Southern Agriculture p. 391-93 1. 2. Slavery was the heart or “engine”
of the Southern economy
White society was complex &
based upon land and slave
ownership
Southern
Agriculture p
Wives were often left in charge of
plantations while husband traveled
on business
Large plantations had a goal to
make profit – self sufficient

8. Wealth & Power
Southern population

9. Southern Society (1850) “Plantation owners” ~ 4% had 20 + slaves
The “Plain Folk” [white rural farmers]
& Tenant farmers
Free Africans
Enslaved Africans ~ 4 million
Total US Population  23,000,000 [9,250,000 in the South = 40%]

10. The Population of the South
Slaveholding Whites
Nonslaveholding
Whites
Enslaved
Africans
Free Africans
less than 10 %
Large plantation
owners were few
(~4%)
Were the majority
of whites - yeomen
about half of south
most worked on
large plantations
Worked under
cruel conditions
Domestic servants
skilled craftsmen
Factory hands
day laborers
City slaves had
more freedoms
Many lived in
cities
Worked small
farms - a few acres
Had 20 + slaves
no rights
Tenant farmers
Larger plantations
were 1000s of
acres
few jobs
threat
of capture &
sold into
slavery
Some owned a
few slaves

11. Southern Agriculture

12. Southern Population

13. Slaves Picking Cotton on a Mississippi Plantation

14. Slaves Using the Cotton Gin

15. Changes in Cotton Production
1820
1860

16. Value of Cotton Exports As % of All US Exports

17. “Hauling the Whole Week’s Pickings” William Henry Brown, 1842

18. Slaves Working in a Sugar-Boiling House, 1823

19. The South's
"Peculiar
Institution“
Slavery

20. Slave Auction Notice, 1823

21. Slave Auction: Charleston, SC-1856

22. Slave Devices
Slave Master Brands
Slave muzzle

23. Anti-Slave Pamphlet

24. Slave Devices
Slave leg irons
Slave tag, SC
Slave shoes

27. Southern
Plantation Life

28. Slave-Owning Population (1850)

29. Slave-Owning Families (1850)

30. Slaves posing in front of their cabin on a Southern plantation.

31. Tara – Plantation Reality or Myth?
Hollywood’s Version?

32. A Real Georgia Plantation

33. Scarlet and Mammie (Hollywood Again!)

34. A Real Mammie & Her Charge

35. The Southern “Belle”

36. The Ledger of John White
Matilda Selby, 9, $ sold to Mr. Covington, St. Louis, $425.00
Brooks Selby, 19, $ Left at Home – Crazy
Fred McAfee, 22, $ Sold to Pepidal, Donaldsonville, $
Howard Barnett, 25, $ Ranaway. Sold out of jail, $540.00
Harriett Barnett, 17, $ Sold to Davenport and Jones, Lafourche, $900.00

37. Southern Slavery-> Unique
1780s: 1st antislavery society created in Phila.
By 1804: slavery eliminated from last northern state.
1807: the legal termination of the slave trade, enforced by the Royal Navy.
1820s: newly indep. Republics of Central & So. America declared their slaves free.
1833: slavery abolished throughout the British Empire.
1844: slavery abolished in the Frencg colonies.
1861: the serfs of Russia were emancipated.

38. A Slave Family

39. Slavery Was Less Efficient in the U. S. than Elsewhere
High cost of keeping slaves from escaping.
GOAL  raise the “exit cost.”
Slave patrols.
Southern Black Codes.
Cut off a toe or a foot.

40. America, The Story of Us 7:36 – 11:44 & 20:06 – 24:30

42. Today,
Complete Ch.14.4 handout & “Draw and Write” activity
Complete Quizlet Review on Ch.14.3 & OR quietly Read Ch.14.4
Class discussion Ch.14.4
View America, Story of Us

43. Slave
Resistance
&
Uprisings

44. Slave Resistance Playing the happy, go lucky, silly character
Refusal to work hard.
Isolated acts of sabotage.
Escape via the Underground Railroad.

45. Runaway Slave Ads

46. Quilt Patterns as Secret Messages
The Monkey Wrench pattern, on the left, alerted escapees to gather up tools and prepare to flee; the Drunkard Path design, on the right, warned escapees not to follow a straight route.

47. Slave Rebellions Throughout the Americas

48. Slave Rebellions in the Antebellum South
Gabriel Prosser 1800
1822

49. The Underground Railroad p. 396

50. Frederick Douglas

51. Slave Rebellions in the South: Nat Turner, 1831

52. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Nat Turner & 70 followers killed 55 whites in Virginia
Turner & followers captured and put to death
aftermath resulted white southerners killing over 200 blacks
harsh laws were passed restricting slaves & free blacks
anti-slavery ideas (abolition) were suppressed
What conclusion can you make about Southern Slavery
Based on what you learned about the rebellion?

53. The Culture of Slavery
Black Christianity [Baptists or Methodists]: * more emotional worship services. * negro spirituals.
“Pidgin” or Gullah languages.
Nuclear family with extended kin links, where possible.
Importance of music in their lives. [esp. spirituals].

54. Southern Pro-Slavery Propaganda

55. America, The Story of Us 24:30 – 29:30