Darty AMH 2010
Chapter Twelve "The Slave South" Exam Terms
Darty AMH 2010
Chapter Twelve "The Slave South" Exam Terms
| South, lower South, institutions of slavery |
| Nat Turner, Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| Cotton Kingdom, black belt, 3/4 world's cotton supply by 1860, Singer sewing machines, land grants, cheap land, Gulf States/Lower South, |
| slave trading ("negro speculation"), gang labor, natural reproduction of slave population, biracial, white supremacy, slave codes |
| Proslavery arguments: Thomas R. Dew, from "necessary evil" to "positive good", legal property, historical endorsement, Bible supported it, benevolence, black inferiority, George Fitzhugh, Charleston Mercury , freedom from class distinction, paternalism |
| Antislavery Arguments: abolitionism, market decline--unnecessary, unethical, violates Bible, expensive, hurt poor whites |
| Plantation economy, approx. 25% white slaveowners, agricultural, cash crops, tobacco, Etienne de Bore--New Orleans (sugar baron), rice, cotton, cotton gin, Eli Whitney, cotton sales equaled majority of GNP in mid-19th C, rural, periphery cities |
| rampant illiteracy, little industrialization or manufacturing, limited fluid capital |
| plantations, masters/mistresses, big house, overseers, paternalism, physical punishment, whippings, patriarch, gentlemanly behavior, miscegenation, mulattos, "slavery, honor, and male domination", southern womanhood, southern lady, chivalry, plantation mistress--her duties?, Mary Boykin Chestnut |
| Slaves and Slave societies Work: agriculture, domestics, day laborers, mining, etc., exploitable labor, all ages worked, field hands, house servants, skilled artisans, driver Culture: slave quarters, relationships, fictive kinship, family, slave fathers, Christianity, fiddle, "shout and response", syncretism, rejected Original Sin, fatalism, rights of passage, male naming schemes, matriarchy, cousin marriage taboo Resistance: storytelling, slowdown method, sabotage, runaways, "lying out", revolt, Nat Turner's Rebellion, Denmark Vesey |
| Free African American Societies (approx. 6%): free blacks, emancipation, manumissions, self-purchase, black codes, marriage, majority propertyless, mostly mulattos, minority slaveholder--William Ellison, subsistence labor, few artisans |
| Non-slaveholding southerners: approx. 75% of population, yeoman farmers, "plain folk", plantation belt yeomen--small farms, basic agriculture, slave patrols, upcountry yeomen--independent family farms, home consumption, limited education; evangelical Christians, poor whites, cultural stigma, tenancy, poverty |
| Southern democratic politics, white male suffrage, direct election, partisan, slaveholder politicians, gentry politics, "cotton curtain" |
| Hinton Rowan Helper--The Impending Crisis of the South (1857) |
| Drawbacks for planters--at least three examples; Benefits for Slaveowners--at least three examples |
| African American cultural contributions: language, ecstatic religion, food/recipes, agricultural development, pharmacology, music--banjo and fiddle, magic and superstition, southern "drawl", racial diversity, population increase |
