1. Plantations and Slavery Spread

2. I. The Cotton Boom

3. A. The Cotton Gin

4. B. Eli Whitney Cotton was becoming too unprofitable
One slave could only clean one pound of cotton a day
He invented a cotton gin (engine)
Now one slave could clean 50 pounds a day

5. How the Cotton Gin Works

6. C. Effects of the Cotton Gin
People began to move west
People began to grow more cotton
More Native Americans were pushed off their land
Slavery increased

7. II. Slavery Expands

8. With the increase in cotton production came an increase in slavery

9. III. Slavery Divides the South

10. Cotton Production in the South

11. White Population of the South Plantation Owners Small Farmers Poor
Whites
Called Planters –
Very Rich
Called Yeoman-
Plain folk
Had 20 or
More slaves
Less than 10 %
of population
Worked along
side slaves
Did not own land
15% of White
Population
75% of population

12. Feared being kidnapped and
African Americans
In the South
Free
Slaves
Could not vote
Could not travel
Feared being kidnapped and
Sold into slavery
1/3 of total
Southern population
Most worked as
Field hands
Either born free or
Freed by their master

17. IV. Finding Strength in Religion

18. Slave Religion
Some slaveholders used religion to make slaves accept their treatment
Slaves were inspired by the stories of Moses and folk tales
Slaves expressed their religion through religious folk songs called spirituals

19. V. Slave Rebellions

20. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Led the most famous of rebellions
8/21/31 Turner and 70 followers killed 55
Most of Turner’s men were captured or killed when they ran out of ammo
Turner was caught and hanged

21. Effects of Turner’s Rebellion
200 African Americans were killed in revenge
Laws were passed to keep slaves and free African Americans from buying guns or alcohol
Slaves could not hold religious services w/out a white person
Anti-slavery publications were banned