Slavery’s
Impact on
the White
South
continued
John Sacher
University of Central Florida
jsacher@mail.ucf.edu
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)
Second Great Awakening
Baptist Church
Methodist Circuit Riders
The Bible and Slavery
Josiah Nott, Types of Mankind
Good Society
Argument
Missouri Compromise
 John
C.
Calhoun
 Exposition
and Protest
(1828)
 Nullification
Nullification
Enforcing the Tariff
Tariff
1833
 “Am
I gagged or am I not?”
Representative John Quincy Adams
responding to the gag rule in the
House of Representatives, May 25,
1836
The Gag Rule
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
Fire Eaters
Dueling
John L. Wilson, The Code of Honor
The Sumner Brooks Affair
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?
Yeoman Farmer
 Dog
Trot House
White Southern Unity(?)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Race
Politics
Economic Relationships
Social Mobility
Kinship
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.”
Yeomen in
Politics
Andrew Jackson’s Houses