1. The South and the Slavery Controversy
Chapter 16
The South and the Slavery Controversy

2. Plantation Agriculture
Wasteful
Excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled the land
Weaknesses of the plantation system
1. Relied on one crop
2. Repealed European immigrants
3. Significant population moved West

3. Continued
Most white Southerners were non-slave-owning subsistence farmers.
Most slaves in the South were owned by a few plantation owners.
Most Southerners did not own slaves because they could not afford it.

4. Ways in Which Southern Slaves Gained Their Freedom
An idealism inspired by the Revolution
Being the children of white masters
Purchasing their way out of slavery

5. Slavery Discrimination was common in the North toward free blacks.
Harriet Beecher Stowe – wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
* The plot shows the enforced separation
of slave families.
Most slaves were raised in a two-person household.

6. Continued Slaves fought the system of slavery in the following ways:
1. Slow down the work pace
2. Sabotage expensive equipment
3. Pilfering goods their labor had
produced.

7. William Lloyd Garrison
His publication is called The Liberator.
He pledged his dedication to the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.