HIST 1310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: History Of The Southern United States, White Supremacy, White Southerners
25 Jun 2019
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A device that separated the seeds from raw cotton. Illustrated the class and social distinctions of the antebellum age. Major new ports developed at st. louis, missouri and memphis, Tennessee: new orleans, rose in prominence and importance largely because of the cotton boom, steam- powered river traffic, and its strategic position near the mouth of the mississippi. River: the bulk of american cotton went to liverpool, england, where it was sold to british manufacturers who ran the cotton mills in manchester and elsewhere. South carolina: most of the slave traders carried these slaves further south to alabama, louisiana, and mississippi, new orleans, the hub of commerce, boasted the largest slave market in the united. 12. 2 african americans in the antebellum united states. In addition to cotton, the great commodity of the antebellum south was human chattel: slaves faced arbitrary power abuses from whites.
