2. Slave Migration
Between 1820 and 1850, over 1 million slaves are sold or moved (we have many surviving records) from traditional slaveholding areas like Virginia and South Carolina and moved into the Deep South (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)
Many slaves pass through auction houses in major cities and go through the dehumanizing process of being poked and prodded on the auction block
The threat of selling a slave and breaking up relationships and families was frequently used by masters as well as various types of physical torture

5. Slavery
Not only is slavery the basis of the Southern Economy, the Northern economy is highly connected to the institution
Northern Lawyers drew up legal contracts over slavery, insurance companies insure slaves as property like you would a car today, and Northern textile manufactures are getting wealthy by processing all of that Southern cotton

6. Know These Terms
Chattel Principal: The property principal. The labor of the slave belongs to the master. Think about the rules that apply to your private property in your life
Benevolent Masters: Slave owners who treated their slaves with some degree of humanity, even if it appeared contradictory. Could come in the form of favors or special treatment or keeping families together

7. Old Southern Gentry
Wealth is heavily concentrated in Southern society. Many whites do not own slaves and rent the land the farm (Poor Whites)
A few thousand planter families own the majority of the land, slaves, and wealth
Old school planters in Virginia and South Carolina view their ancestry as special and model their lifestyle after the English aristocracy. Formal balls, tons of rules and traditions, inter- marrying between small groups of wealthy families

8. Don’t write this down
In 1860, just 15 families owning massive plantations in one county of South Carolina owned 4,383 and produced 14 million pounds of rice annually.
Think about what this stat can tell you

10. Gone With the Wind
Nap Time .youtube.co m/watch?v= G4546UkGW Sw&list=PLFE 444BAFF3E2 8FAD

11. Old Southern Gentry Politics
Many members of the elite planter class distrusted rule by the masses and trusted government groups of “Virtuous Men”. This line of thinking goes back well beyond the years of Thomas Jefferson
Feared “Populist” politicians
This helps explain why some wealthy Southerners joined the Whig Party (anti-Jackson)

12. Concept of Slavery as a “Positive Good”
Popular concept used to justify slavery
Claimed is benefitted whites and improved their standard of living, while providing direction, work, and subsistence to an otherwise genetically inferior race of people
“Subordination to the white man is his natural condition”
Provide food, housing, built churches for their slaves, and cared for them in old age. (How kind)
Viewed their plantations as a “patriarchy” with the slave master as the father of all

13. New Cotton Planters In the Deep South and Western states
These newer planters are not all aristocratic like many of the older planter families near the coast
Cotton production is super labor intensive and quickly depletes the soil. Known as harsh work.
These places are known for having high mortality rates
Cotton plantations have reputations of being incredibly harsh among slaves
Phrase “Sold down the River” becomes used. ‘The River’ being the Mississippi River, the transportation heart of cotton country

15. Slave Holder Breakdown
Number of whites in the South holding blacks in bondage is roughly 31% in 1850
Some areas of the South have high percentages of slave ownership, others have low
By 1860, only 400,000 families are estimated to have owned slaves
Of these 400,000 slave owning families, 5% of them owned over 50% of the slaves and produced over 50% of the South’s Cotton crop. WEALTH CONCENTRATION!

17. Tejas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGmVFl6E28w
15:45-27:00 and 36:00-41:30