Out of Many Chapter 10 Outline
Key Terms: cotton gin, Alabama Fever, Flush Times, sold down the river, slave pens, coffles, overseers, big house, black codes, Tredegar Iron Works, yeoman, “The Liberator”, gag rule
Key Historical Figures: Eli Whitney, Frederick Douglass, Harriett Tubman, Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, William Gregg, William Lloyd Garrison
Key Topics for Discussion:
- From pages 310-311 how does the story of Natchez-Under the Hill reflect growing tensions in the south?
- What were the positive and negative consequences of the cotton gin? How did this impact migration to the south?
- How did cotton impact the north?
- How did slavery impact all of southern society socially, economically, and politically? Compare that to northern development. Pages 314-315
- How rapid was the increase in the slave population? Looking at the pie chart on page 316 what impact did cotton have on the southern economy?
- How many slaves were traded internally? What was the process? How did this impact the debate over slavery?
- On pages 317-318 have a complete understanding of the experience for a slave who was “sold down the river”.
- From pages 318-321 compare the daily life and experiences of field slaves, house slaves, artisan slaves, and skilled labor slaves.
- How were American slave societies different from other new world slave societies?
- How did some southerners argue that their treatment of was better than northern treatment of workers?
- What was life like for slave children? How were slave families structured?
- How did African-Americans develop a distinctive religious culture? How did Christianity and the 2nd Great Awakening impact this?
- How did slaves revolt? Why weren’t slave revolts more common?
- Why was the number of free African-Americans much greater in the upper south? What was life like for them? How “free” were they?
- What percentage of the southern population actually owned slaves?
- Compare the southern middle class with that of the yeoman class.
- Compare small planters with the elite plantation class.
- What was life on the plantations like for women?
- How did slave owners keep control of their slaves?
- From pages 335-337 have a complete understanding of the arguments used to defend slavery and how they changed over time.
- What factors were contributing to a decline in slave owners? How did this impact the South Use the chart on page 338