The Culture of Slavery
Slave culture was a mix of __ and __ culture.
1. African
2. Western
or
1. black
2. white
What was one of the laws put in place by slave codes?
2. cant leave masters property without permission
3. cant be out after dark
4. cant carry fire arms
What was one obstacle in economic development?
South’s inadequate transportation system
What was the idea of the Aristocrat Ideal
Southern White planters wanted refinement and class like the old aristocracies of England so they valued chivalry and tried their hardest to mock the aristocracies of England and to try to be refine and proper
This aspect of slave culture was spontaneous and used whatever instruments were available.
music
What book did Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley write?
1) Behind the scenes of Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
2. Behind the scenes as a slave, four years with a white dude
3.Behind the scenes as a slave, with a white husband
1) Behind the scenes of Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
One reason the South remained different from the North?
Agriculture declines in North
Wealthy Southerners invested in land and slaves, couldn’t invest in anything else
Southern climate unsuitable for industrial development
What was the difference between north and south women's education?
South academies were more focused on training and educating women to be a good house wife and a good wife to her husband while in the North they trained the women with proper education that did not revolve around being an ornament for their husbands.
This aspect of slave culture was more emotional than its white counterpart.
religion
Which of the following was not a main part of slaves' diets?
1) Cornmeal
2) Potatoes
3) Molasses
4) Salt pork
2) potato
What was De Bows commercial review?
It called for southern commercial expansion and economic Independence from the North.
What was the one thing that unified all the white people, regardless of class?
Shared sense of racial supremacy: thinking and having an ideology that they were better than the slaves, looked down upon them.
This aspect of slave culture was often interrupted by slave traders.
family
What was the effect of Southern slave laws in 1830s?
Limited power to manumit slaves making it almost impossible to free them.
What were 2 the south dependent on the North for?
- industrial manufacturers
-merchants
-professionals
Which type of people did not oppose the plantation system?
A) Yeoman Farmer
B) Hill People
C) Non-slave owning whites
C) non slave owning whites
They did not oppose it because they benefited from the expanding land making more profit even though they did own slaves
1. performed
2. minister
Why was the mortality rate of African Americans so low compared to white Americans? Name 2 of the 3 main reasons.
Enforced Poverty
Bad living conditions
Less healthy
The Cotton Gin
Why were the yeoman farmers the typical white farmers? (hint: what factor could have changed their condition)
They did not have education so they had no other choice but to be typical farmers.