HIST 1376 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Upland South, Hookworm Infection, Planation Surface
6 Dec 2016
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Access to leftovers from the master"s table. The only successful large-scale slave uprising was led by nat turner, a slave preacher who led an armed band of slaves to murder 60 white men, women, and children in virginia. Whites could not teach slaves to read or white. Most whites living in the appalachians or the ozarks practice subsistence agriculture, growing most of their crops for their own use. Female slaves often received particularly vindictive treatment from masters" wives. Slave women labored in the fields and also cooked and cleaned. Slaves" prayer meetings often included vocal exclamations and fervent chanting. Slave religion often blended elements of african religious traditions and christianity. They often were separated from their husbands and fathers. By the 1830s, the center of tobacco cultivation was moving westward into the piedmont area, while the farmers of virginia, maryland, and north.
