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The South and Slavery: Agricultural Dependence and the Fight for Freedom

This chapter examines the plantation system's weaknesses in the South, highlighting its reliance on cotton cultivation, the detrimental impact on the land, and the social structure that favored a few wealthy plantation owners over the majority of non-slaveholding farmers. It explores the various ways enslaved individuals sought their freedom, including purchasing their release and the moral influences of the Revolution. The chapter also discusses prominent figures like William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe, shedding light on the broader anti-slavery movement and the discrimination faced by free blacks in the North.

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The South and Slavery: Agricultural Dependence and the Fight for Freedom

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  1. Chapter 16 The South and the Slavery Controversy

  2. Plantation Agriculture • Wasteful • Excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled the land • Weaknesses of the plantation system 1. Relied on one crop 2. Repealed European immigrants 3. Significant population moved West

  3. Continued • Most white Southerners were non-slave-owning subsistence farmers. • Most slaves in the South were owned by a few plantation owners. • Most Southerners did not own slaves because they could not afford it.

  4. Ways in Which Southern Slaves Gained Their Freedom • An idealism inspired by the Revolution • Being the children of white masters • Purchasing their way out of slavery

  5. Slavery • Discrimination was common in the North toward free blacks. • Harriet Beecher Stowe – wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin * The plot shows the enforced separation of slave families. • Most slaves were raised in a two-person household.

  6. Continued • Slaves fought the system of slavery in the following ways: 1. Slow down the work pace 2. Sabotage expensive equipment 3. Pilfering goods their labor had produced.

  7. William Lloyd Garrison • His publication is called The Liberator. • He pledged his dedication to the immediate abolition of slavery in the South.

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