1. Way Down Yonder in the Land of Cotton
Chapter 7 Section 3

2. Cotton in King South still depended on cashcrops Rice, indigo, tobacco
Increasingly cotton
Picking & cleaning cotton tedious process
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin 1793
This coincided w/the rise in demand, textile mills
Explosion in cotton sales, 2/3s of total US exports
Made planters rich & also entrenched slavery

4. Industry Lags Stays agricultural with exception of 3 cities
Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans
Did have some industry
Coal, salt, iron, copper works, textile
mills, ironworks
Relied heavily on imports
Accounted for only 16% of
nations manufacturing total

5. Society
Planters, ½ of 1% population, dominated economy, politics, etc. 20 or more slaves
Yeoman Farmers , majority, 4 to no slaves
Rural poor, scratched by, 10% pop.
African-Americans, 93% enslaved, 37% total population
Small urban class of professionals, even these owned farms

6. Slavery 2 systems Slave codes, no property, permission to leave
Small farms, Task System, tasks to complete
Gang Labor, worked from sunup to sundown
Driver – supervisor, often enslaved
Frederick Douglass, freed slave
Slave codes, no property, permission to leave
Status of free blacks was ambiguous
Mostly lived in cities in upper South, some bought land or even slaves, business owners etc.
Still suffered prejudice in the South and the North

7. African American Culture
Songs to pass the long work day or even secret messages
Religion, many Christian w/some African traditions, centered around prayer
Resistance
Slowdowns, broke tools, set fires, ran away
Rebellion
Denmark Vessy, free black accused of rebellion
Nat Turner, enslaved minister, killed 50 people
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