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What was the most realistic depiction of the Old South?

Old Tom's Cabin(1852), a novel which depicted Southerners as arrogant aristocrats who raped enslaved women, brutalized slaves, and lorded over their local communities

What view of the Old South does the movie Gone with the Wind present?

Southerners are kind to their slaves and devoted to the rural values of independence and chivalric honor, values cele- brated by Thomas Jefferson.

Why did southerners ignore the morality of slavery?

The lust for profits. Cotton was valuable resource and slaves were the best way to procure it.

Why was the South so different from the rest of the nation?

The South most distinctive was the expanding institution of slavery. Most southern whites did not own slaves, but they nevertheless supported the continuation of the “peculiar institution.”

Why were the theories of racial superiority significant in the South?

It created a sense of racial unity that bridged class divisions among most whites.

Describe the population in the South.

The population of the south was mostly slaves. By 1860 the slave population was almost half.

What were the South three sub-regions? Explain

The seven states making up the Lower South had the most amount of slaves because of their cotton production. The states of the Middle South included areas without slavery and in the Border South slavery was declining by the 1860s

What was the main reason for the Old South to experience mass migration from Virginia and the Carolinas to the west and south during the first part of the 19th century?

The Old Southwest’s low land prices and suitability for cotton cultivation (as well as sugarcane in Louisiana) served as a powerful magnet, luring hundreds of thousands of settlers

What was the most profitable crop of the South in the first half of the 19th century? What were other profitable crops in the South?

Cotton. But other crops were also profitable such as tobacco.

Why more of the half of the slaves worked in cotton production?

The rapid expansion of the cotton belt throughout the South ensured that the region became more, rather than less, dependent on enslaved black workers

What was the main reason the South did not want to industrialize?

First, blacks were presumed unsuited to factory work. Second, the ruling planter-commercial elite of the Old South had developed a lordly disdain for industrial production

What was the difference between a farm and a plantation?

What distinguishes a plantation from a neighboring farm, in addition to its size, is the use of a large enslaved labor force, under separate control and supervision, to grow primarily staple crops

What did it take to be a “planter”?

One had to own twenty slaves, only one out of every thirty whites in the South in 1860 was a planter

What proportion of the South’s white population had a proprietary interest in slaves?

Assuming that each family numbered five people, then whites with some proprietary interest in slavery constituted 1.9 million, or roughly a fourth of the South’s white population.

What was the plantation mistress?

The mistress of the plantation, like the master, seldom led a life of idle leisure. She supervised the domestic household in the same way the planter took care of the business, overseeing the supply and preparation of food and linens, the housecleaning and care of the sick, and a hundred other details.

Who were the yeomen farmers?

Yeoman were small farmers who raised a few hogs and chickens, grew some corn and cotton, and traded with neighbors more than they bought from stores.

How many slaves approximately lived in the South before the Civil War (1860)?

By 1830 there were 2 million slaves and by 1860 there were 4 million.

What was the status of the free persons of color in the Old South? Could they own slaves?

Free persons of color occupied an uncertain status between slavery and freedom, subject to racist restrictions not imposed upon whites. They could own slaves, 2 percent of free blacks owned slaves.

Why selling slaves became big business in the Old South? What was the worst aspect of the domestic slave trade?

Banning the import of slaves from Africa had the effect of increasing the cash value of slaves in the United States. The worst aspect of the domes- tic slave trade was the separation of children from parents and husbands from wives.

Why were slave women valuable?

Women slaves were valuable because the slaveholders could sell their babies as slaves.

What was the Celia case?

Celia was a slave who was bought by a man named Robert Newsom. Newsom raped the girl repeatedly and treated her as his mistress. After falling in love, Celia had enough of it and murdered Newsom. At her trial, she was found guilty by the all-male judge and was later hanged.

Could slaves legally marry?

Slaves were not allowed to legally marry

How was slave religion like?

Their religion was a unique mixture of African, Christian, and Caribbean mixtures.