Chapter 10: The South and Slavery

King Cotton

1820

1860

1820

1860

King Cotton

Slaveholding and Class Structure Elite Middle class yeoman Poor

Population Patterns in the South, 1850 In six southern states, slaves comprised over 40 percent of the total

population.

Southern Pro-slavery Propaganda

American Colonization Society

1. Wanted gradual emancipation2. Quakers and Upper south slave owners3. Shipped off to Liberia4. Failed miserably

Abolitionists1. Fredrick Douglass

a. Political rightsb. Use constitution

2. William Lloyd Garrisona. Liberatorb. Nonviolence and passive resistence

“Gag Rule”

church

Yeoman 1. Independent farmers2. Bartered services3. Rags to riches4. White privilege

Middles class Inherited wealth

Defense of Slavery No debates on subject of slavery No alternative labor systems Decreased cooperation in national politics= no compromising by the south!