HIUS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Nuclear Family, Cotton Gin, Master Class
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Hius 130 lecture 17 the world the slaves made: political culture. In some states, young children (babies) could not be separated from their mothers. London and left their plantations to overseers: had some investment in creating a stable society, children would grow up in it. Slaves managed to create a complicated network of relationships that constituted the foundation of a political life that enabled them to be ready when the opportunity came for collective action in. Expansion of the slave system: by time of the revolution, slave population was reproducing itself for the most part. Splitting of property: slaves sold off to pay debt, planters realized that plantations were better if slaves lived in family groups, stabilized the system, slaves pressured planters into recognizing familial units. Some planters offloaded the problem of feeding slaves to the slaves themselves: once slaves had gardens, they had something to sell and to trade, took full advantage of this opportunity.
