1. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
I. Nation within a Nation
II. King Cotton
III. Vignettes
IV. Slaves’ “Inner world”
V. Summary
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

2. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
8 Questions
This was the reason house slaves/servants were expected to whistle a tune while carrying hot food from the detached kitchen to the main house.
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

3. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
I. Nation within a Nation
II. King Cotton
III. Vignettes
IV. Slaves’ “Inner world”
V. Summary
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

4. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

5. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

6. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

7. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
I. Nation within a Nation
II. King Cotton
III. Slaves’ “Inner world”
IV. Vignettes
V. Summary
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

8. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
A plantation well stocked with workers is the ambition of every man who lives in the South. Young men who come to this country ”to make money” want this This is the reason for the great number of planters and few professionals if they are at all successful. As soon as the young lawyer make enough to purchase a few hundred acres of rich soil and a few slaves, he quits his profession at once and turns cotton planter. The legal profession in Natchez [MS] is composed entirely of young men.
Physicians make money much more rapidly than lawyers so they turn planter even sooner They far outnumber the regular doctors who have not yet climbed high enough to leap down into a cotton field on the other side.
- Joseph Ingraham, “The South-West”, 1835

9. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

10. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
I. Nation within a Nation
II. King Cotton
III. Vignettes
IV. Slaves’ “Inner World”
V. Summary
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

11. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

12. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
I. The West
II. Vignettes
III. The East
IV. Vignettes
V. Summary
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

13. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

14. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
8 Questions
This was the reason house slaves/servants were expected to whistle while carrying hot food from the detached kitchen to the main house.
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

15. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

16. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

17. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
“There is neither
Jew nor Greek,
there is neither slave
nor free man, there is
neither male nor
female; for you are
all one in Christ Jesus.”
- Galatians 3:28
“Masters, treat your slaves
justly and fairly, knowing
that you also have a
Master in heaven.”
- Colossians 4:1
“Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling.”
- Ephesians 6:5
“Tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect.”
- Titus 2:9
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

18. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
A Catechism for Slaves, 1854
. . . Q. Who gave you a master and a mistress?
Q. Do the angels work?
Q. Did Adam and Eve
Yes, they do what God tells them.
have to work?
A. God gave them to me.
Yes, they had to keep the garden
Q. Who says that you must obey them?
Q. Do they love to work?
Yes, they love to
Q. What makes the
A. God says that I must.
please God . . .
crops so hard to
Q. What book tells you these things?
grow now?
Q. What does God say about your work?
Sin makes it.
The Bible . . .
A. He that will not work shall not eat.

19. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
“Follow the Drinking Gourd”
Verse 2
Now the river bank makes a mighty good road,
Chorus
Follow the drinking gourd,
The dead trees will show you the way.
For the old man is a-waiting for
Left foot, peg foot, traveling on,
to carry you to freedom,
Follow the drinking gourd.
Verse 1
Verse 3
When the sun comes back and the first quail calls,
Now the river ends between two hills,
The old man is a waiting for to carry you to freedom,
There's another river on the other side,

20. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

21. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”

22. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
A pint of joy and a peck of trouble,
And never a laugh, but the moans come double
And that is life!
- Unknown slave
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

23. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
I. Nation within a Nation
II. King Cotton
III. Vignettes
IV. Slaves’ “Inner World”
V. Summary
Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states form the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?