1. The rise of “King Cotton” The Cotton Gin (1793)
U.S. History Friday,
The Slavery Issue
The rise of “King Cotton”
The Cotton Gin (1793)
The Three Souths: Border, Middle, Lower
The Planter “Aristocracy”

2. Slaves and the Slave System (the “Peculiar Institution)
U.S. History Friday,
Slaves and the Slave System
(the “Peculiar Institution)
Plantation System and Slavery
Burdens of Slavery
Slave revolts
The White Majority – White Paranoia
Free Blacks and Discrimination

3. The Abolition Movement American Colonization Society
U.S. History Friday,
The Abolition Movement
American Colonization Society
Radical Abolitionism
William Lloyd Garrison
American Anti-Slavery Society
Frederick Douglass

4. U.S. History Friday,
Southern Reprisals
In the face of the growing sentiment against slavery, pro-slavery whites launched a massive defense of slavery as a positive good for all involved.