Distinctiveness of North American slavery
1. demographic
2. closed system
3. shared language
4. race &
5. scarcity of rebellions
6. family life
Significance of 1808 (1807) closing of international slave trade
Why?
1. antislavery
2. demography
3. economy & security of upper south
Ramifications:
1. plantations & slave experience
majority of slaves
2. raised on plantations
3. community & family
4. language & culture
5. negotiated relationships: master/slave (vs. total dependence)
work & community opinion
6. planter’s & Enlightenment
7. Christianity
8. honor & violence in south
9. slave knowledge
10. plantation reform: living conditions
11. closed system & planter dependence
Slave culture
Christianity
Black preachers
spirituality
Making of the South:
slavery/antislavery/proslavery
connections of upper/lower south
pro-slavery argument
the yeomanry
The South & the political system
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