Chapter 15: The Old South
Chapter Outline
- Myth and reality in the Old South
- Contrasting myths about southern whites
- Paternalistic and aristocratic
- Arrogant and brutal
- Distinctive features of the Old South
- Geography and weather
- Slavery
- Native-born population
- Assumption of distinctiveness
- Diverse farming
- King Cotton
- Food crops
- Soil exhaustion and erosion
- Manufacturing and trade
- Dependence on North
- Reasons for lack of industry
- Unsuitability of blacks
- Disdain of elites
- Profitability of slavery
- White society in the South
- Tragedy of dependence on cotton
- Plantation
- Definition
- Extent of slaveholding
- Way of life
- Planters’ wives
- Middle class
- Overseers
- Yeoman farmers
- “Poor whites”
- Different from yeomen
- “Lazy diseases”
- Culture of honor and violence
- Sense of honor
- Duels
- Black society in the South
- Free persons of color
- Origins and status
- Mulattoes
- Black slaveholders
- Occupations
- Discrimination against
- Slavery
- Plantation slavery
- Work
- Owner’s control
- Slave retaliation
- Revolts
- Malingering
- Sabotage
- Slave women
- Reproduction
- Demands of motherhood
- Work
- Sexual abuse
- Slave life
- Community
- Religion
- Family
- The Frontier South
- The Southwest
- Migration patterns
- To economic opportunity
- Young men
- Slaves
- Settlement
- Land purchases
- Environment
- Masculine culture
- Sex roles
- Drinking, gambling, fighting
- Antislavery movements
- Efforts for colonization
- American Colonization Society, 1817
- Free black community’s reactions to colonization
- Creation of Liberia
- Development of abolitionist movement
- From gradualism to abolitionism
- Garrison’s Liberator
- Nat Turner’s rebellion
- Antislavery groups
- Tensions in movement
- Radical wing
- Simple abolitionism
- Issue of women’s rights
- New York anti-feminists
- Black efforts against slavery
- Issue of involvement in white antislavery groups
- Former slaves as leading abolitionists
- Sojourner Truth’s role
- Frederick Douglass’s contributions
- Harriet Tubman
- Nature of the Underground Railroad
- Northern discrimination against blacks
- Reactions to antislavery agitation
- The “Gag Rule” in Congress
- Petitions to end slavery in District of Columbia
- House decision to table petitions
- John Quincy Adams’s role
- Creation of the Liberty party (1840)
- Efforts to support slavery and deny abolitionism
- Biblical arguments for slavery
- Belief in intrinsic inferiority of blacks
- Socially impossible for blacks and whites to live together
- Attacks on northern wage slavery in the factory system
- Views of George Fitzhugh
- Calhoun’s arguments
- Critics of slavery in the South silenced
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