1. The
Antebellum
South

2. Missouri Compromise, 1820

3. Antebellum
Southern
Society

4. Southern Society (1850) “Slavocracy” [plantation owners]
6,000,000
The “Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers]
Black Freemen
250,000
Black Slaves 3,200,000
Total US Population  23,000,000 [9,250,000 in the South = 40%]

5. Southern Population

6. Antebellum
Southern
Economy

7. Southern Agriculture

8. Slaves Picking Cotton on a Mississippi Plantation

9. Slaves Using the Cotton Gin

10. Changes in Cotton Production
1820
1860

11. Value of Cotton Exports As % of All US Exports

12. The South's
"Peculiar
Institution"

13. Slave Auction Notice, 1823

14. Slave Auction: Charleston, SC-1856

15. Slave Accoutrements
Slave Master Brands
Slave muzzle

16. Anti-Slave Pamphlet

17. Antebellum
Southern
Plantation Life

18. Slave-Owning Population (1850)

19. Slave-Owning Families (1850)

20. Slaves posing in front of their cabin on a Southern plantation.

21. The Ledger of John White
Matilda Selby, 9, $ sold to Mr. Covington, St. Louis, $425.00
Brooks Selby, 19, $ Left at Home – Crazy
Fred McAfee, 22, $ Sold to Pepidal, Donaldsonville, $
Howard Barnett, 25, $ Ranaway. Sold out of jail, $540.00
Harriett Barnett, 17, $ Sold to Davenport and Jones, Lafourche, $900.00

22. US Laws Regarding Slavery
U. S. Constitution: * 3/5s compromise [I.2] * fugitive slave clause [IV.2]
1793  Fugitive Slave Act.
1850  stronger Fugitive Slave Act.

23. Runaway Slave Ads

24. Southern Reactions to Abolitionism in the 1830s
The “Positive Defense” of Slavery
“I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good—a positive good.”
-- John C. Calhoun (1837)
Calhoun

25. Antislavery Petitions
The “Gag Rule”
Antislavery Petitions
FROM THE
1ST AMENDMENT
“Congress shall make no law… abridging… the right of the people… to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

26. Slave Rebellions in the Antebellum South: Nat Turner, 1831

27. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
1831
Largest slave rebellion in U.S. history
About 200 dead (total)
Put down in two days

28. Twelve Years a Slave is a narrative of a free person of color from New York who was abducted and sold into slavery in Louisiana.

29. Closing Question
In what ways is American still over coming issues stemming from slavery?