Slavery
Free African Americans
Primary Sources
Culture
Economy
100
Who were the least wealthy members of society?
Slaves
100
How many African Americans were free?
1 in 50 or 250, 000
100
Who said,"I enjoy above all things to be a ‘Farmer.’ It is the most honest, upright, and sure way of securing all the comforts of life."
A Georgia man in 1849
100
Who were primarily concerned with raising crops and supervising slave labor?
Males
100
What business did the South have some/little of in their economy?
Industries
200
How many whites owned slaves?
33%
200
Many African Americans worked in skilled trades, give an example of one.
A Barber
200
What are these used for?
A system of badges used to differ between free African Americans and slaves
200
Who ran the plantation household?
The wives
200
What was the base of the South's economy?
Agriculture
300
Who was Henry Box?
The man who escaped slavery through shipping himself in a box
300
How were African Americans discriminated(3 ways)?
Couldn't vote, travel freely, or hold certain jobs
300
Who said, "The status of slavery is the only one for which the African is adopted"
A mississippian
300
What served as the center of African Americans social life?
Churches
300
Who were the wealthiest members of society?
Planters
400
True or False:
Most of the white slave owners had different beliefs
False
400
What group was african americans discriminated by constantly?
Whites
400
What book is associated with this time period?
Gone with the wind
400
Where did most free african americans live?
The Countryside as paid laborers
400
What is another name for small farmers?
Yeomen
500
To a lot of white southerners, thought having Free African Americans threatened the institution of _____?
Slavery
500
In some places African Americans had to have a ______ in order to make a business transaction
A white person to represent them
500
William Johnson was a free african american, what did he, being a former slave, go to do?
Own 16 slaves
500
What group made up the largest part of the population?
Yeomen, small farmers
500
What cash crop was known as king?
Cotton