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11 Cards in this Set
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The "Peculiar" South
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"Peculiar" typically a euphemism method for slavery.
*Esp. the North and South's fundamental differences in terms of slavery. (More?) |
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James Henry Hammond
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From S.Carolina, argued that slaveholding was essentially a matter of property rights. (Circa 1845)
-Views represented many Southerners -Slaves were legal property & property= sacred |
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William Harper
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Former US Senator in S.Carolina, charged in 1837 that Jefferson's famous dictum about equality in the Declaration was no more than a "sentimental phrase."
*Many slave holders believe ranks natural. |
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Paternalism
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Many slaveholders saw themselves as paternal guardians & protectors of slaves.
-"obligations" -"benevolent guardians of an inferior race" |
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"Dixie Difference"
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Americans have always been determined to define the difference between South & North.
(One historian called it this) -"Both American & something different" / counterculture *most acutely true in decades before Civil War |
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Manumissions
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"cotton snobs"
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New (in 1840's), very rich planters from Alabama & Mississippi.
*got all their wealth from slave labor on cotton plantations |
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William Faulkner
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Immortalized the new wealthy planter in his novel "Absalom, Absalom!" (1936)* AFTER ALL THIS
-Character = Sutpen, self-made "need land, niggers, and a fine house" |
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Paul Carrington Cameron
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North Carolina's largest slaveholder, viewed himself as paternalistic master.
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The Ostrich Game
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Women had to ignore the existence of mulatto children as products of husband's affairs w/ slaves.
-Slavery yet another thing white women had to ignore & submit too. |
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Southern Quarterly Review
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"The proper place for a woman is at home. One of her highest privileges is to be politically merged in the existence of her husband."
-Southern men did not tolerate women abolitionists at all, growing discussion in 40's & 50's. |
