MASTERS AND SLAVES I. Slavery and the Southern Economy A. Economic Adjustments in the Upper South 1. Tobacco centers to mixed farming 2. Capital from sale of slaves B. The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom 1. "Short-staple" cotton 2. Cotton moves west 3. 1850's South produced 75% of world's cotton 4. Value exceeded that of all other American exports C. Slavery and Industrialization 1. Textiles, flour, lumber, iron & coal 2. Dependent on North 3. Profitability of Slavery II. The Slaveholding Society A. The Planters' World 1. 1% of white population own 20 or more slaves B. Planters and Slaves 1. Paternalism - Genovese 2. Standard of Living 3. Overseers & violence C. The World of Plain Folk 1. Owners with fewer than 20 slaves 2. Most don't own slaves 3. Support & defense of institution - Philips / Tocqueville D. A Closed Mind and a Closed Society - Elkins 1. Encourage all Southerners to close ranks 2. 1830's "Positive Good" - humane asylum - Genovese 3. Africans were inferior - Philips 4. Sambo's & Buck's and Mammies & Jezebel's - Elkins III. The Black Experience Under Slavery A. Forms of Slave Resistance - Stampp & Elkins 1. Prosser, Vesey & Turner vs. subtle rebellion B. The Struggle of Free Blacks 1. South - semi-slavery 2. North - legal discrimination but, organize; underground railroad; abolitionists C. African American Religion - Genovese 1. Traditional rituals & Christianity 2. Sustained sense of self worth D. The Slave Family 1. Extended family