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