1. The
Antebellum
South
By: Mr. Poletti

2. Early Emancipation in the North

3. Missouri Compromise, 1820

4. Missouri Compromise
Any states below the 36, 30 parallel can own slaves.
Any states above the line are free states.

5. United States in 1820

6. Antebellum
Southern
Society

7. Characteristics of the Antebellum South
Primarily agrarian.
Mass production of goods
“Cotton Is King!” * 1860 5 mil. bales a yr (57% of total US exports).
Very slow development of industrialization.
Poor financial system.
Inadequate transportation system.

8. 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%]

9. Southern Population

10. Antebellum
Southern
Economy

11. Southern Agriculture

12. Slaves Picking Cotton on a Mississippi Plantation

13. Slaves Using the Cotton Gin

14. Changes in Cotton Production
1820
1860

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

16. The South's
"Peculiar
Institution"

17. Slave Auction Notice, 1823

18. Anti-Slave Pamphlet

19. Slave Accoutrements
Slave leg irons
Slave tag, SC
Slave shoes

20. Distribution of Slave Labor in 1850

21. Antebellum
Southern
Plantation Life

22. Plantation Life No beds. Scraps from owners table.
Long Hours and no breaks.

23. Slave-Owning Population (1850)

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

25. A Real Georgia Plantation

26. 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

27. US Laws Regarding Slavery
U. S. Constitution: * 3/5s compromise [I.2]
Slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person. * fugitive slave clause [IV.2]
 Fugitive Slave Act
 stronger Fugitive Slave Act.
Any Marshall who did not arrest a runaway slave would be fined $1,000

28. Slave
Resistance
&
Uprisings

29. Slave Resistance 1. Refusal to work hard. Isolated acts of sabotage.
Escape via the Underground Railroad.

30. Runaway Slave Ads

31. Quilt Patterns as Secret Messages
The Monkey Wrench pattern, on the left, alerted escapees to gather up tools and prepare to flee; the Drunkard Path design, on the right, warned escapees not to follow a straight route.

32. The Underground Railroad
Why did southern slave owners fear Harriet Tubman?