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Chapter 16 1.) “Cotton Is King” a.) North and South prospered with slaves i.) Southern Planters ii.) Northern Shippers b.) Cotton is powerful i.) Civil War ii.) North cuts cotton trade with Europe iii.) England Suffers iv.) London Stops Blockade v.) Cotton Wins 2.) The Planter “Aristocracy a.) Before Civil War: South was like an oligarchy b.) Planters with all of the money i.) Send children to school in good northern schools ii.) Money provided leisure 3.) Slaves of the Slave System a.) Cotton exhausted the land for large but quick profits b.) Plantation system had instability i.) Slaves were huge liabilities 1.) Injury and Escaping c.) Cotton was a one crop economy i.) At the mercy of world conditions d.) South did not get mass European immigration 4.) The White Majority a.) 1/4th of Southern whites owned slaves b.) Non-slave owning whites looked down upon i.) Sick 1.) Malnutrition and parasites 5.) Free Blacks: Slaves without Masters a.) Many free blacks were mulattoes b.) Free blacks in the south were w/out rights that whites had i.) Could not work in certain jobs ii.) Couldn’t testify in a court c.) Free blacks were not popular in then North i.) Some couldn’t enroll in public schools ii.) Most couldn’t vote 6.) Plantation Slavery a.) 1808 legal slave trade was forbidden by congress i.) Thousands smuggled before civil war b.) Most of slaves came from natural reproduction i.) Instead of slave trade c.) Families were separated at slave auctions

7.) Life under the Lash a.) Slave treatment changed from place to place b.) Dawn to Dusk work days c.) Family life was more stable on big plantation w/20 or more slaves d.) African roots were noticeable in African American life 8.) The Burden of Bondage a.) Slaves couldn’t be educated i.) Education brings ideas ii.) Ideas brought discontent b.) Slaves practiced passive resistance i.) Worked fast enough to evade the whip 9.) Early Abolitionism a.) First Abolitionism i.) Transporting blacks back to Africa ii.) 15 thousand blacks transported back b.) Abolitionism took momentum i.) British cousins were unchained in West Indies c.) Finney Weld led Northwestern abolitionism i.) Pamphlet: //American Slavery As It Is// 10.) Radical Abolitionism a.) William Lloyd Garrison i.) Published The Liberator ii.) Sparked part of the Civil War iii.) Slavery would not be tolerated b.) Fredrick Douglass i.) Serious Abolitionist ii.) Great Orator c.) Garrison and Douglass(very different abolitionists) 11.) The South Lashes Back a.) Planters afraid of slave revolt i.) Turner conspiracy and //The Liberator// b.) Proslavery whites argued slavery’s goodness i.) Took Africans out of Barbaric Jungles ii.) Gave them good Christian background c.) Southern slaves vs. Northern wage slaves i.) Worked in fresh air ii.) Not in stuffy factory iii.) Slaves were cared for iv.) Factory workers were thrown out when their usefulness was finished 12.) The Abolitionist Impact in the North a.) North need the South economically i.) Garrison’s secession ideas would end that b.) Garrison dragged through street in Boston c.) Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy killed