Chapter 16 American Pageant 13 th edition Slavery during the Antebellum Period Antebellum Ante before Bellum war Commonly used to describe the era before the Civil War 1830s1840s 1850s ID: 501770
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The South and the slave controversy
Chapter 16
American Pageant
, 13
th
editionSlide2
Slavery during the Antebellum Period
Antebellum
Ante
=
before
Bellum
= war
Commonly used to describe the era before the Civil War (1830s,1840s, 1850s)Slide3
Hello, King Cotton!
Southern states produced ½ of the world’s supply of cotton
On Southern cotton, rested Northern trade
Planter aristocracy ran the SouthSlide4
The South in truth
The majority of Southerners did not own slaves
Human chattels were seen as investments
A $2 billion industrySlide5
The South in truth
Free blacks did exist in the both the North & South
Slavery as a “peculiar institution”
Not always beaten
Sometimes rebellious Slide6
The South in truth Slide7
Abolitionism
American Colonization Society
Transported freed blacks to Liberia
William Lloyd Garrison’s
The Liberator
Notable names:
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglas
Olaudah
Equiano
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Little Dixie
Little
Dixie: the
area along the Missouri River where settlers from Virginia, Kentucky & Tennessee settled
High concentration of slave population; 20-50% of county populations
Callaway County (the setting of Celia)