The Old South

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TheOld South
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Images of the Old South

• Gone with the Wind
• Whites a natural __________
• Stable agrarian society
• Paternalistic white planters
• Kind to slaves
• Dedicated to rural values of independence honor
• Uncle Toms Cabin
• Planters as arrogant aristocrats
• Raped slave women
• Brutalized slave men
• Broke up slave families
• Trampled on rights of poorer __________

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Sources of Southern Distinctiveness

• Climate
• The Peculiar Institution of slavery
• __________ society
• Few immigrants
• Martial spirit
• __________ by North South alike that it was
  distinctive

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Tredegar Iron Works(Richmond, VA)
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By committing itself to cotton production, the
South

• Gambled its future on unending demand (primarily
  British)
• Sacrificed long-term __________ for short-term
  gain
• Accepted moral isolation from rest of the world
  (Due to existence of slavery)

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Distinguishing Characteristics of
Plantations(How were they different from other
farms?)

• Large size
• Substantial __________ enterprises
• Dedicated to producing staple crops for
  __________
• Large labor force
• Management structure
• Division of labor
• Distinction between management labor
• Owners did not work alongside slaves

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The Planter Mindset

• Were a privileged elite
• Saw themselves as community leaders
• A natural aristocracy
• Expected __________
• Conflated their _______ interest with the Souths
  interest

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The Small Planters(Jeffersons yeoman farmers)

• Fiercely __________
• Suspicious of __________
• Supported slave system (But most owned no slaves)
• Feared economic competition
• Enjoyed privileged status (Mudsill)

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Poor white trash

• Lived a primitive existence on fringe of society
• Characterized as
• Dirt-eaters
• Lazy
• Shiftless
• Failings attributed to heredity
• Actual causes
• __________
• __________ deficiencies

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Honor and Virtue in the South

• Expectations
• A Southern Gentleman was
• __________
• Polite
• __________
• A Southern Lady was
• __________ pure
• __________ pious
• Domestically submissive

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Free Persons of Color

• Ways a slave might gain freedom
• Purchase it
• Granted in recognition of service
• (Usually for military service)
• __________
• (Used by G. Washington)
• Escape
• (Necessarily entailed leaving the South)

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lt Harriet Beecher Stowe

• William Lloyd Garrison gt

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Frederick Douglas gt

• lt Sojourner Truth

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Defense of Slavery

• Slavery existed in the __________
• Slavery __________ and a social necessity
• Blacks basically inferior, slavery had a
  civilizing effect
• Contrasted it to evils of _____ slavery in
  the North