1. Slavery’s Impact on the White South John Sacher University of Central Florida jsacher@mail.ucf.edu continued

2. Slavery’s Importance  Slavery “is incorporated with every fiber of our social and political existence.” (James Henry Hammond, 1860)  Slavery “has fashioned our modes of life, and determined all our habits of thought and feeling and molded the very type of our civilization.” Benjamin Palmer (1860)

3. Second Great Awakening

4. Baptist Church

5. Methodist Circuit Riders

6. The Bible and Slavery

7. Josiah Nott, Types of Mankind

8. Good Society Argument

9. Missouri Compromise

10.  John C. Calhoun  Exposition and Protest (1828)  Nullification

11. Nullification Enforcing the Tariff 1833 Tariff

12. The Gag Rule  “Am I gagged or am I not?” Representative John Quincy Adams responding to the gag rule in the House of Representatives, May 25, 1836

13. Compromise of 1850

14. Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)

15. Fire Eaters

16. Dueling Dueling

17. John L. Wilson, The Code of Honor

18. The Sumner Brooks Affair

19. Yeoman—A funny word  Yeoman (plural Yeomen)  Not Yoeman, nor Yo-Man, nor Yowman  Definition—An independent farmer. –What makes one independent? –What makes one a farmer? –Did yeomen own slaves?  Another definition “A self-working farmer” –What percentage of the South’s population were Yeomen?

20. Yeoman Farmer

21.  Dog Trot House

22. White Southern Unity(?) 1. Race 2. Politics 3. Economic Relationships 4. Social Mobility 5. Kinship

23. John C. Calhoun “With us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black; and all the former the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals.”

24. Yeomen in Politics

25. Andrew Jackson’s Houses