APUSH Chapter 11: Slavery and Cotton Kingdom
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1. 1791:Slave revo- The greatest fear of whites in the Lower South was a slave
lution in Saint revolt. Saint Domingue was a French-controlled sugar
Domingue colony where slaves rose and killed white planters and
their families. Many terrified whites came to Charleston
and the French and British could never recover Haiti.
2. 1811: Charles Largest slave revolt in American history. Slave revolt led
Deslondes revolt by trusted black overseer Charles Deslondes. The revolt
in Louisiana involved than 200 slaves along the Mississippi River near
New Orleans Deslondes was shot and burned to death.
US Army units intervened during the raid.
3. 1822: Denmark Slaves led by Denmark Vesey planned on capturing the
Vesey conspira- city arsenal and killing all whites and burning Charleston to
cy is discovered the ground. Slaves told this owner about the rebellion and
in Charleston, 135 people including Vesey were captured and convicted.
South Carolina Many convicted slaves were sent to Cuba. The Vesey
conspiracy led US Senator John C. Calhoun to abandon
nationalism ideas of the earlier century and focus on the
south.
4. 1860: Annual cot- MAP: Slaves migrated west with cotton production. Slaves
ton production who lived in cities were literally like a freeman. They inter-
in the United acted with the community, hired out to others, and kept
States reaches a portion of wages in contrast to field hands and cotton
4 million bales. pickers who were beaten and literally worked to death.
Slave population
in the United
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States reaches 4
million
5. Peculiar institu- The peculiar institution was coined by South Carolina
tion p. 416 Senator John C. Calhoun to describe slavery. The peculiar
institution allowed Southerners to avoid using the charged
word "slavery.' The profits and convenience of owning
slaves created a sense of social unity among whites. Poor
whites still thought they were above blacks. Because of
slavery, everybody belongs to an elevated class. Immi-
grants could not afford to live in the South and manual
laborers could not compete with slave labor. Southerners
said they were morally better with guns, horses, and gar-
dens. Northerners painted the South as a dark place that
was trapped in an immoral economic system dependent
on the exploitation of blacks and displacement of Native
Americans.
6. What were (3) re- 1) Lower South: Depended on COmmerical Cotton pro-
gions of the Old duction supported by slave labor.
South? 2) Upper South: Had more varied agricultural economiies
with large plantations and family farms. States like NC,
Tennessee and Virginia had large areas withought slavery.
3) Border South: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, slav-
ery was slowly disappearing because cotton could not
thrive there. By 1860, 90 percent of Maryland Delware's
slave population was already free. NOT LIKE LOWER
SOUTH, WHICH NEEDED SLAVERY TO RUN PLANTA-
TIONS AND SURVIVE.
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