“Moonlight and Magnolias”
• This tradition clouded reality
• Oligarchy
• One crop economy
• Slavery
• The South’s “peculiar institution”
Oligarchy
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Ruled by a few
¼ of the white population owned slaves
Of that, 2/3 owned less than 10.
Since Jamestown, they had control of government.
Do you want Civil War?
YES!
Yeoman
Mountain whites
Cotton is truly King!
• South
• Sold it to the world and provided most of the “white gold”
• West
• Provided the South with food stuffs
• North
• Ships to take the cotton to the world and textile mills used some of the
cotton
BUT…
• Bad year and all hell brakes loose!
Slavery
• Been in the USA
• When the war started there were 4 million slaves in USA
100,000 free blacks
Louis C. Roudanez
Slavery
South was dealing with slavery!
• Nat Turner Revolt
• 1832
• Turner and six of his men killed their Master’s entire family as they lay sleeping
What happened to them?
• Nat Turner and his men were killed and spread all over the South
• 50 others killed
• Close to 200 black people, many of whom had nothing to do with the rebellion,
were murdered by white mobs.
WHY?
• William Lloyd Garrison
Things are going to have to change
• Illegal to teach a slave to read or write
• The Liberator, and any other abolitionist literature ,is banned in the South.
North is dealing with slavery
• American Colonization Society
• Raised money to free slaves
• Sent them to Liberia
• More than 11,000 blacks were transported to Liberia before 1860
More…
• Reforms
• Abolitionist
• Anti-slavery
• Political Parties
• Free Soil Party
Blessings?
• Brought them Christianity
• Brought them to America
• Slavery is in the Bible
Curses
Peter