Southern emancipation

Question 1

Some slaveholders

Answer 1

Did free their slaves upon their deaths
E.g Madison

Question 2

Virginia

Answer 2

345,000 slaves in 1800
Very few were emancipated

Question 3

Emancipation depended on

Answer 3

Location
Population of African Americans
Fear of black retaliation (meant people didn’t want to emancipate because of this)

Question 4

Unified south

Answer 4

Seen as economically different to the north
Unified around the preservation of slavery

Question 5

Emancipation in the north

Answer 5

Meant slavery lost its national status
Became a local (peculiar) institution