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