Slaveholders as a class

Question 1

Planters lived well

Answer 1

Could afford good, clothes, food etc

Question 2

Most slaveholders did not

Answer 2

Have large plantations
88% had fewer than 20 slaves
72% had fewer than 10 slaves
50% had fewer than 5 slaves
Few slaveholders had massive amounts of slaves

Question 3

South Carolina had

Answer 3

The most slaves
Rice and cotton productions

Question 4

Plantation locations followed the river

Answer 4

Meant goods could easily be transported

Question 5

Slaveholders tended to live

Answer 5

In large comfortable farmhouses
Neo-classical mansions

Question 6

Slaveholder diet

Answer 6

Meat
Fresh vegetables and fruit
Cake
Jams
Contrasted diets of the slaves

Question 7

Plantation house

Answer 7

Home of the slaveholder and their family

Question 8

Planters

Answer 8

Coordinated the house
Handed out rewards and penalties
Settled disputes between slaves and overseers

Question 9

Planters attempted to expand production by

Answer 9

Buying more land and slaves

Question 10

Planters were the

Answer 10

Tope of the economic social ladder

Question 11

Planters were the master of

Answer 11

Crops
Money
The enslaved

Question 12

Planters were the

Answer 12

Keystone of southern society
Believed they had the right to plant

Question 13

Demands of the market

Answer 13

Lead to exploited land at the hands of the planter

Question 14

Paternalistic master of the plantation view

Answer 14

The mistressof the house

Question 15

Mistress was

Answer 15

Submissive to the master
In charge of the slaves

Question 16

Responsibilities of the mistress

Answer 16

Tending to the sick
Tending to poultry
Creating clothes
Food preparation
Supervision of the domestic servants

Question 17

Idea that the slaves were afraid of the

Answer 17

Monster the mistress could become
E.g Frederick Douglass experience with Mistress Hugh (originally she was kind but corruption of slavery meant she eventually became mean)

Question 18

Mistresses didn’t challenge

Answer 18

Their duties (though diaries have suggested they disliked it)
Their place
Institution of slavery

Question 19

Mistresses didn’t like the appearance of

Answer 19

Mixed-race children
Knew they were likely their husband’s children