HIST 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Smallholding, Secret Ballot, Manumission
16 May 2016
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Chapter 12 the south expands: slavery and society 1820-1860. No matter how rich, few farmers in alabama, texas, or mississsippi lived in elegant houses or live a cultured life: creating the cotton south, the domestic slave trade. Federal government increased land and state numbers of slavery by introducing new states. Slaves were taken from old south to western slave states. 1860- majority of blacks lived and worked in the new south: the coastal and inland networks. Slave traders would take young slaves around the country chained together to sell them. Domestic slave trade crucial to prosperity of the southern economy: the impact on slave families. Seperated 1/3 of children under age of 14 from one or both of their parents. Few whites questioned the morality: the dual cultures of the planter elite, slave-owning aristocrats. Aristocrats married sons and daughters to maintain exclusivity. Southerners showed that hebrews owned slaves: slave-owning entrepreneurs.
