1. How the Southern Defense of Slavery Turned Our Country Towards War
The Antebellum South
How the Southern Defense of Slavery Turned Our Country Towards War

2. Revolutionary Principles
Southerners thought the north had abandoned the principles of the revolution
Just as England would take raw materials from the colonies, so now does the north do this to the south

3. Why Did Poor Whites Fight?
Within a slave society, poor whites were always one rung above slaves
Remove the slave system and the poor whites would find themselves at the bottom rung doing slave work

4. Plantation Paternalism
Just as children could not look after themselves, the slaves had to be protected by their masters or else they couldn’t function
This gives rise to slave owner “paternalism”, a father like figure that would see over the welfare of slaves

5. Scientific Justification for Slavery
PHRENOLOGY is a “science” that supposedly used skull measurement and contouring to prove black inferiority
POLYGENESIS put forward the idea that there were two human races…whites came from the Garden of Eden and black did not

6. Southern White vs. Black Women