HIST 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cotton Gin, Dark Skin, Northern Kentucky University
29 Sep 2016
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Week 3: lecture 1 the southern defense of slavery (guest speaker) Many of the states that later practiced abolition, were at one point involved with slavery in one form or another. Racism is not native to one area. Basically the quote means: slavery is a problem and either maintaining it or abolishing it will come with its own set of problems. He advocated for slaves to be deported back to africa. The cotton gin: before it would take a single slave about 4 hours to produce one pound of cotton fiber, now two slaves could run the cotton gin and get. 1830s the south moved from slavery is a necessary evil to slavery is sanctioned by god, morally okay, and really very good for society . A culture of gentlemen: chivalrous towards women, kind to others, obsession with knights and chivalry. The northerner likes to make money and the southerner likes to spend it .
