Due Tuesday, October 16.
MAKE SURE YOU ANSWER THE QUESTIONS INCLUDED IN THE NOTES, AND EXPLAIN THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE!
I. How does life in a slave system denigrate all involved?
A. Economic monopoly and its effects: How was the cotton kingdom like a huge factory?
1. expansion into Gulf states (Deep South)- ecological consequences (land butchery)
B. Development of oligarchy– how prevalent was slavery, really? (see chart on p. 353, also)
1. impact on national politics
C. Economic inequality, financial instability, and demographic imbalance- impact on general Southern culture
1. cost of purchasing and maintaining slaves (consider monetary value)
2. one-crop economy drawbacks
3. impact on immigration– why?
4. impact on education
D. Life of poor whites
1. access to land
2. Why do they still support slavery?
E. Impact of end of the Middle Passage in 1808
F. What was life like for African-Americans in a slave system?
1. Legal status
2. Conditions in the “black belt” versus the “Upper South”
3. Religion: a force for aqcceptance or force for freedom?
4. Family life
5. Uprisings and passive resistance
6. The “third race”
G. How does slavery enable to “cottonocracy” to dominate Southern society so completely? How does the demand for cotton enable them to dominate foreign relations?
II. What forms did resistance to slavery take?
A. Moderate abolitionists: the American Colonization Society and Liberia
B. Radical Abolitionists
1. Theodore Weld
2. Lane Rebels
3. Beecher family
4. Garrison and the Liberator
5. Am. Anti-Slavery Soc.
6. Sojourner Truth
7. Martin Delaney
8. Frederick Douglass
9. Elijah Lovejoy (from Alton, Ill.!)
C. New political parties focused on slavery
D. Reactions against abolitionism
1. nullification
2. apologists and the “positive good” argument
3. Gag Resolution
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