C11 Flashcards
became the main source of profit for the South after the invention of the cotton gin
King Cotton
From 1846 until 1880 this was magazine that advocated southern commercial and agricultural
De Bow’s Review
Agriculture economy was booming; many wealthy southerners had little money left; Southern climate was less suitable than the North for industry development
Sources of Southern differences
People happily free from the base, acquisitive instincts of the “Yankees” to their north; white southerners
Cavaliers
Despite the fact that only 1/4 of Southern whites owned any slavers at all, and only a fraction of them owned more than a few slaves, these planters came to dominate life in the South
Planter aristocracy
A typical white Southerner was a modest yeoman farmer who owned a few slaves; devoted themselves to subsistence farming of the land that they owned
Plain folk
Southern highlanders who lived in the Appalachian ranges, the Ozarks, and other ‘hill country’ areas; preferred to be in areas that were cut off from the more commercial world of plantation
Hill people
What white southerners called slavery, which meant that it was distinctive and special
“Peculiar institution”
Rules for slaves
Slave codes
Methods of assigning labor to slaves
Task and gang systems
Separate domestic staff
House slaves
There were about 250,000 of these in the slaveholding states by the start of the Civil War
Free African Americans
Purchasers gathered to bid for slaves
Slave-markets
Federal law prohibited the importation of slaves from 1808 on, some continued to be smuggled into the United States as late as the 1850s
The Foreign Slave Trade
Slave who preached and eventually led a violent slave rebellion
Nat Turner
