• The Old South (Peculiar Institution)

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Voice of freedom pgs 207-210

• Discuss with a partner

• Who is Frederick Douglas?

• What is his background?

• When was this document written?

• Who is the intended audience?

• Why does Douglas so strongly link education with freedom?

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Frederick Douglass

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Southern Society • Planters

– Often Whigs

• Small slaveholders

• Yeomen

– Democrats

• Landless Whites

• Free Blacks

• Slaves

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A Yeoman Farm

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Justification for slavery • Natural

• Social justification

– Paternalism

• Religious justification

– Curse of Ham

• History to justify slavery

• Pro-slavery Argument

– George Fitzhugh

– Slaves treated better than northern “wage slaves”

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Voice of freedom pgs 217-219

• Who is the author?

• What is his background?

• When was this document written?

• Who is the intended audience?

• Why do white southerners feel that is important to show that the Bible sanctions slavery? How do slaves understand the slavery mentioned in the Bible?

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Growth of Cotton Production and the Slave Population, 1790–1860

• Cotton and slavery rose together in the Old South.

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Life under slavery • 1730-1830 changes in demographics

– 1808 Congress outlawed the African Slave Trade

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Life under slavery

• Work on the plantation

• Slave family

• Work off the plantations

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• Slave Resistance

– 1831 Nat Turner Rebellion

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=KWs5TTn19qk

– Underground Railroad,

• Harriet Tubman

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The Old South

• Slavery and the Making of America –

• 201-240 mins • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5OFiWL5LRE

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