1. Table Discussion
What did you put for your exit ticket? Is identity something you choose? Or is it something you are assigned?

2. Race and US History
Purpose: To identify the key racial moments in America History up until after the Civil War.

3. 1600’s
Virginia begins cultivating tobacco; S. Carolina rice and indigo, high demand for labor in colonies
First record of Africans brought to Jamestown by Dutch, sold as indentured servants
Massachusetts Colony legalizes slavery
Virginia Colony legalizes slavery
Bacon’s Rebellion causes decline of indentured servitude, switch to slavery

4. Servants versus slaves
Indentured Servants
Europeans (white)
Owned by a plantation owner but only for a certain amount of years
Once they were done they could be free and often times given some land or equipment
Chose to become servants because of economic consequences
Slaves
Black and other non- whites
Owned for life, early on, children were not slaves
If they were freed were guaranteed nothing
Forced into slavery

5. Bacon’s Rebellion
Maybe the most important and underrated event in American Racial History!!!
Black slaves and white servants fought side by side!
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6. Southern Society (1850) “Slavocracy” [plantation owners]
6,000,000
The “Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers]
Black Freemen
250,000
Black Slaves 3,200,000
Total US Population  23,000,000 [9,250,000 in the South = 40%]

7. American Revolution and slavery

8. Changes in Cotton Production
1820
1860

9. Distribution of Slave Labor in 1850

10. Two Justifications of Slavery

11. Two Justification of Slavery
Slaves were dehumanized, seen as property, racism became institutionalized
The value of a young male slave by 1860 was roughly $20,000, the law and the economy clearly defined slaves as property, not humans
The paternal view of slavery.
Slaves were noble savages who were being domesticated and civilized by caring white slave owners
This develops slavery into a social system

12. Southern Population

13. Economic dependence on slavery
The South was primarily agrarian.
Very slow development of industrialization.
Rudimentary financial system.
Inadequate transportation system.
Again, 57% of US exports were Cotton

14. Slavery “entrenched”
Fear of disrupting social order- society, rather nature, had developed life this way, who were we to disrupt it? But more importantly there was fear of blacks as they were viewed in such an inferior manner. What would happen if we let these “brutes” have freedom?
Fear of destroying the South’s economy-The South was all in on cotton, it would take years to replace it with something else and the South did not trust the North to help with that