1. Copyright ©2006 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

2. Copyright ©2006 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South The Cotton Economy The Cotton Economy –The Rise of King Cotton  Decline of the Tobacco Economy Tobacco Economy  Short-Staple Cotton  Spread of Cotton Production Production Slavery and Cotton in the South, 1820 & 1860

3. Copyright ©2006 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South The Cotton Economy The Cotton Economy –The Rise of King Cotton  Decline of the Tobacco Economy  Short-Staple Cotton  Spread of Cotton Production Production  Expansion of Slavery Cotton Gin in Use (Library of Congress)

4. Copyright ©2006 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South The Cotton Economy The Cotton Economy –Sources of Southern Difference  Reasons for Colonial Dependency Plantations In Louisiana, 1858

5. Copyright ©2006 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South The Cotton Economy The Cotton Economy –Sources of Southern Difference  Reasons for Colonial Dependency  The Cavalier Image

6. Copyright ©2006 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South White Society in the South White Society in the South –The Planter Class  Planter Aristocracy  Plantation Management Management A Georgia Plantation

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8. Copyright ©2006 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South White Society in the South White Society in the South –The Plain Folk  Limited Educational Opportunities  Hill People  Close Relations with the Plantation Aristocracy  Commitment to Paternalism  Limited Class Conflict

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11. Copyright ©2006 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. The Business of Slavery (Library of Congress) Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South Slavery: The “Peculiar Institution” Slavery: The “Peculiar Institution” –The Slave Trade  Slave Markets

12. Copyright ©2006 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. The Culture of Slavery The Culture of Slavery –African-American Religion  Slave Religion Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

13. Copyright ©2006 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter Eleven: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South The Culture of Slavery The Culture of Slavery –The Slave Family  Slave Marriages  Importance of Kinship Networks  Paternal Nature of Slavery