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CHAPTER TEN: THE SOUTH AND SLAVERY, 1790s–1850s
The Cotton Gin
Expansion into the Old Southwest
“Alabama Fever”
Changing Attitudes toward Slavery
The Internal Slave Trade
The Economics of Slavery
England’s mills
Henry Hammond -“Cotton is King”
Cotton Culture
Social pyramid
“trap” of cotton planting/ cash crop mentality
American Slave System
Ownership
Challenge to Survive
House Servants/ Artisans / Gang System of Labor
Cradle to Grave
Sold ‘Down the River’
Slave Families
African American Religion
Resistance/Slave Revolts
Free African Americans
Whites
The Middle Class
Poor White People
Yeomen
Yeoman Values
Planters
Old Planter Elite (% ____ ?)
Plantation Life
Plantation Mistress
Coercion and Violence
Developing Proslavery Arguments
After Nat Turner
Changes in the South
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