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North and south, slave and free |
biggest difference between slaves and free blacks was their legal rights status |
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slaves legal status |
the law defined slaves as property not human beings. legally slave holders could do almost anything with their human property. could buy and sell slaves. could leave slaves to their children. |
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rural and urban slaves |
most slaves worked on farms and plantations across the south. 1860- 70000 urban slaves. wages earned belonged to their owners. |
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free blacks in the south |
half of all free African Americans lived in the south. most worked as laborers, craftspeople, or house servants in towns and cities. |
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free blacks in north |
lived freer lives. but experienced discrimination/unequal treatment. denied right to vote. trouble finding good jobs. |
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the economics of slavery |
white southerners did not own slaves. inventions of cotton gin in 1793. 1790 south produced just 3000 bales of cotton. more than 4 million bales a year. |
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working conditions of slaves |
worked on various farm sizes. owners and slaves worked side by side on the fields. planters hired overseers to supervise their slaves. they tried to get the most work possible out of slaves' tired bodies |
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living conditions of slaves |
most masters viewed their slaves as they did their land. needed to to keep their slaves healthy to keep working.slaves lived crowded together in their cabins. |
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controlling slaves |
was a system of forced labor. had to keep their slaves firmly under control. some slaveholders used forms of torture like beating, whipping, branding, and others. torture was used to make slaves feel more resentful and rebellious |
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resistance to slavery |
despite the efforts slaves found countless ways to resist slaves. after freedom Harriet Jacobs said "My master had power and law in his side. I had a determined will. There is power in each." |
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day-to-day resistance |
took forms of quiet acts or rebellion. pulled down fences, broke tools, and worked so sloppily than they damaged crops. house slaves sneaked food out of the master's kitchen |
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open defiance |
quiet resistance sometimes flared into open defiance. pushed to hard slaves refused to work rejected orders or struck back violently |
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running away |
some slaves tried to escape by running away to freedom in the North. hired professional slave catchers and their packs of howling bloodhounds to hunt down runaway slaves. |
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rebellion |
resistance erupted into violent rebellion. slave revolts occurred in cities, plantations and ships at sea. |
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slave families and communities |
slavery made community and family life difficult. no southern state organized slave marriage. slave children rested with slave masters.owners could break up slave families at any time they wanted to |
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leisure time activities |
"come day, go day, god send Sunday" captured the weariness of slavery. sunday was their free day. |
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slave churches |
church on Sunday. some read the bible to their workers and prayed with them. preached the same message, "if you disobey your earthly master, you offend your heavenly master." |
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african american culture |
arrived int he u.s speaking many languages. followed many cultural traditions. to survive they had to learn english. and adopt a new way of life. around the south they combined their old traditions and new realities to create a distinctive african american culture. |
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What does the map show? |
it shows the route of the extent of cotton growing from 1801-1960 and 1840-1860 it also shows the slave trading routes. |
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How did the size of the area where cotton was growing change between 1801 and 1860? |
The areas got larger and spread out a bit more. |
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Did the production of the cotton increase or decrease between 1801 and 1860? What effect do you think this had on the use of slavery? |
it increased. it made slaves not have to work much more because the machine was doing all the work. |
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What invention accounts for the changes you see on this page? |
the cotton gin |
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How might these changes have affected slaves? How might these changes have affected the economy of the south? Were these changes good or bad? Why do you think so? |
It made the slaves work less but may be punished more. It made the south have more plantation. I think the changes were good because it did cause the slaves to work less and have the south get more plantation therefor more food. |
