Chapter 13 – The Old South; Cause/Effect Timeline and Analysis

The Social Structure of the Cotton Kingdom

In the 1820s and 30’s
[White settlement was] “pouring in with a ceaseless tide …” / Look for three results
Upper south environmental impact:
Lower south environmental impact:
Wheat and Corn are major crops of Upper South / Result:
Lack of manufacturing in the rural south / Result:
The South showed far less interest in education.
Slaves were not evenly distributed throughout the South.
Slavery was profitable
Slavery was profitable (what’s the evidence it was?) / Social impacts of that profitability
a)
b)
c)

Thesis for “The Social Structure of the Cotton Kingdom”:

Class Structure of the White South

Slaveowners (characteristics)
Tidewater slave owners / Frontier slave owners
Paternalism of the slave owner / However, the reality was:
[she] “had the sewing work cut out, gave orders about dinner, had the horse feed fixed in hot water, had the box willed with cork: went to see the carpenters working on the negro houses …” / Who said it and what did they mean?
“it was a saying that the mistress of a plantation was the most complete slave on it.” / Who said it and what did they mean?
“… the mulattoes one sees in every family partly resemble the white children. Any lady is ready to tell you who is the father of all the mulattoes one sees in everybody’s household but her own. Those, she seems to think, drop from the clouds. My disgust sometimes is boiling over.” / Who said it and what did they mean?
Yoeman farmers (characteristics)
a)
b)
c)
Poor Whites (characteristics)
a)
b)
c)

Thesis for Class Structure of the White South:

The Peculiar Institution

Slaves were not free / Play close attention to the limits on slave’s lives. Nothing to write here
Complete this statement: “Slavery was not only an economic system but also a ______and ______one.
Work and Discipline / Pay close attention to how slave labor and discipline differed by size of operation, type of production, status, and the two systems of labor “gang” and “task.” Nothing to write here.
(cause) / Slaves had a lower life expectancy / Even so:
Resistance: Three slave rebellions
1)
2)
3) / General white reaction
Impact on free blacks (p. 369)
And in Virginia in particular (p.370):
Resistance: other forms of rebellion
1)
2)
3)

Thesis for The Peculiar Institution:

Slave Culture

Between 1820 – 1860, more than 2 million slaves were sold in the interstate slave trade. / Despite this vulnerability, (family characteristics)
“The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart.” / Who said this and what did they mean?
(Davidson, et al., lay out three broad areas showing the importance of religion)
1)
2)
3) / “[After the Second Great Awakening] At the center of slave culture was religion.” Davidson, et al., p 366.
·  “We house slaves thought we was better’n the others what worked in the field.”
·  “ … on account of her color.” / What did these comments indicate about the hierarchy among slaves?
Free Black Southerners (characteristics or examples below)

Thesis for Slave Culture:

Southern Society and Defense of Slavery

The Virginia Debate of ______
Three Defenses of Slavery
1)
2)
3)
Few white southerners after 1840 would even admit privately that slavery was wrong. What were three reasons for this?
1)
2)
3)

Thesis for Southern Society and Defense of Slavery: