The Old South
and Slavery,
1830-1860
Chapter 12
Cash Crops
 Cotton
is King
 The
British Textile Industry
 The
Cotton Gin
 The
Removal of Indians
Cotton
 Southern
Climate
 Profit
Margins
 Corn
Production
 imports
The South
 The
Upper South
 The
Lower South
 The
effects of the
3/5ths Compromise
 Resentment
towards abolition
Differences between
the North and South

Southern Factories

Southern Capital

Switching to Industry

Public Education

Literacy

A Different Economy
Statistics
 Slave
owners
 Planters
 Small
slave owners
 Yeomen
 People
Barrens
of the Pine
Plantations
A
factory in the field
 Cash
 New
Crops
Land
 Extending
 Sexual
Credit
Standards
Southern Whites
 Small
 The
 The
slave owners
Yeomen
People of the
Pine Barrens
Social Relations
 Southern
 State
White Society
Legislatures
 Whigs
 Democrats
Question???
Why
did non-slave
holding whites typically
support slavery?
The Proslavery Argument
 “A
positive
good rather
than a
necessary evil”
 History
and
Religion
 Wage
slaves
The South
 The
Response to Abolition
 Violence
 The
in the Old South
Code of Honor
 Southern
Evangelicals
Life Under Slavery
 The
evolution of
slavery in America
 Changes
culture
in African
 The
Black
Population
 Plantation
Slaves
Slave Laws
 The
Slave Family
 Separations
 Sexual
 The
Demands
evolution of the
black family
Slavery
 The
Longevity of slaves
 The
slave mortality rate
 Slaves
off plantations
The South
 Free
Blacks
 Numbers
 Laws
against free blacks
 Manumission
Rebellion

Gabriel Prosser

Denmark Vesey

Nat Turner

Frederick Douglass

Harriet Tubman

The Underground
Railroad
African American Culture
 English
pidgin
 Religion
amongst
African Americans
 The
effects of
Christianity
 Black
Music and
Dance