1. PLANTATIONS
AND SLAVERY

2. Chapter 11
Section 3

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COTTON GIN – 1793 invention that makes the cotton cleaning process easier
Before one person could clean one pound of cotton a day
Now one person could clean 50 pounds of cotton a day

4. THE COTTON GIN

5. Ted Ed-How inventions change history for better and worse

6. Ways that the Cotton Gin changed life in the south:
1) Triggered more cotton production in the west

7. 2) Made cotton the KING crop of the south

8. SLAVE CROPS IN THE SOUTH - 1860

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3) More Native Americans were moved off their land so it could be used to grow cotton

10. 4) Slavery continues to be the major source of labor and more slaves are needed

11. SLAVE POPULATION IN 1830

12. Most of the slaves in the South were on huge plantations, not smaller farms

13. SLAVE LIFE ON A SOUTHERN COTTON PLANTATION

14. In 1840 about 33% of the population in the South were slaves
About 1 in 3 were slaves

15. In 1840, about 8% of African Americans in the South were free

16. How did slaves cope with slave life?
Music!
Think of an example of when music affected you!

17. Spirituals
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”-

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African Americans used religion, friendships and music to endure the cruel conditions of slavery

19. SPIRITUALS – religious folk songs7
SPIRITUALS – religious folk songs
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
“Follow the Drinking Gourd”

20. Families were important to slaves8
Families were important to slaves
But families were often divided and split up

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NAT TURNER –
an African American who believed that God wanted him free the slaves in any manner possible
He organized a slave rebellion in Virginia, 1831
The rebellion failed and killed 55 white men, women and children, BUT

22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBH3Xzz3Y3E 11
The Rebellion made southern slave owners even more fearful to revolts and cracked down on the slaves – about 200 slaves killed in revenge

23. Discovering NaT Turner

24. THE
END