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The World of Southern blacks
1793

11.1 What factors made living conditions for southern blacks Slavery and the
more or less difficult? p. 247 Southern Economy— 1793
eli Whitney invents the
Living conditions varied because slaves performed many types of cotton gin 1800
labor. Some worked from sunup to sundown in gangs; others main- The World of
tained more work control through the “task system”; urban slaves 1800 Southern blacks—
and free blacks had more autonomy. Family and community helped Gabriel Prosser leads
ease slave life, while some slaves resisted oppression by running away, 1822 abortive slave rebellion
sabotage, and even armed rebellion. The World of in Virginia
Southern blacks—
White Society in the Antebellum South Denmark Vesey 1822
conspiracy uncovered
in Charleston, South
11.2 What divided and united white southern society? Carolina 1829
p. 253
The World of
While great planters were a tiny minority of the population, they Southern blacks
set the tone for white southern society, propagating the ideology of 1829 —David Walker’s
“paternalism,” that slaves were children who required a stern but lov- Appeal calls for blacks
ing parent. Most whites owned few or no slaves, but a political system to take up arms against
of “white man’s democracy” and the ideology of white supremacy 1831 slavery
united them with large slaveholders. The World of
Southern blacks 1831
Slavery and the Southern economy Slaves under Nat Turner
kill nearly 60 whites in
11.3 How was slavery related to economic success in the Virginia
South? p. 259 1832
Slavery dominated the economy of the South: Tobacco gave way to White Society in the
the internal slave trade as the biggest business in the Upper South, 1832 Antebellum South
while the cotton gin made large-scale staple agriculture a booming Virginia legislature
economic machine in the Deep South, fueling the growth of a world rejects gradual
textile industry and enriching the planter class. 1835–1842 emancipation
White Society in the
Antebellum South —
blacks fight alongside 1835–1842
indians in the Second
Seminole War
1849
Slavery and the
1849 Southern Economy—
1857 Cotton prices give rise
White Society in to a sustained boom
the Antebellum
South—Hinton R.
Helper attacks slavery
on economic grounds 1857
in The Impending Crisis
of the South; the book
is suppressed in the
southern states 1860
Slavery and the
1860 Southern Economy—
Cotton prices and
production peak
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