Section 1: The Antebellum South
I. Sectional Similaritiesa) Western European Culture
b) Power of the White Male
II. Sectional Differences I. Largely Rural “periphery”
II. Changes in AgricultureI. Self-Sufficient v. Market Farms
II. Cyrus McCormick
III. The Antebellum South a) Power of the Planter
b) Fundamental Flaws in Southern Industrial Expansion
c) Slavery
IV. The Railroad
a) Prominent in the North, not so much in the South
V. The Growth of Cities a) Impact of Industry in the North
VI. Southern Life and Society a) Identity: slavery & staple agriculture
VI. The Development of “Southernism”
a) Distinctive self
b) George Fitzhugh
c) Josiah Nott
Section 2: Slavery
I. Slavery and the Constitution a) 3/5 Compromise
b) The Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
c. Missouri Compromise
II. The Slave Trade
IV. Development of Slavery
a) Laws
b) Punishment
c) Paternalism
V. Free Blacks
a) Discrimination
b) William Ellison
VI. Slave Management
a) Owner
b) Overseer
c) Cotton General
VII. Slave Life and Culture
a) Field v. House Slaves
b) Women
VIII. Slave Resistancea) Gabriel
b) Denmark Vesey
c) Nat Turner
d) silent sabotage