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1. What is the “Peculiar Institution?” A white
southerners term to
describe slavery in
the United States of
America during the
ante-bellum era
specifically.
The 1800’s to
the American
Civil War in 1860What made slavery in
the U.S. “peculiar” or
different from that
which existed in
other areas of the
world and/or in the
Author/Professor at
University of California
at Berkeley Kenneth M.
Stampp wrote a book
entitled The Peculiar
Institution: Slavery in the
Ante-Bellum South.
world and/or in the
past?
� treatment/care
� plantations
� mortality rates
� family incentive/s
� height of slaves
� elimination of slave
trade RESA: Slavery (15 min)
2. Origins of African Slave Trade…
Tribal
war in
Africa…
Jamestown (VA)
1606… discovery
of tobacco…
Plantations Plantations
develop across
the United
States southern
states…
U.S. Constitution forbid
slave trade after the
year 1808…
Cotton Gin made
growing cotton
very profitable…
4. Slave Populations:
a) 1790 Census total population 3,929,000 (slave
population 698,000)
b) 1860 Census total population 31,443,321 (slave
population 3,953,760)
In 1860 U.S. slave population almost 4 million representing 53% of the Southern population
For slave women in the U.S. who lived through child-bearing years (50) average of 9.24children – near the natural limit…
RESA: Life
on a Slave
Plantation
(20 min)
Distribution in 1825: U.S. 36%; Brazil 31%; Caribbean 21%; and Spanish America 11%
U.S. had the highest rate of domestic population growth and the Caribbean the slowest.
6. Plantation Life in America:
a) Family Structure
b) Activities
c) The “Master”
d) Discipline (The “Overseer”)
e) Paternalism
Parent/Child
relationship?
7. A Southerners Scientific Argument…
a) Dr. Samuel Cartwright
(1) Dysacthesia Aethiopica (“Rascality”)
(2) Drapetomania
b) George Fitzhugh
(1) “Canniballs All”
Scientific
Racism
Drapetomania:
Dr. S. Cartwright
disease that makes
slaves run-away
GeorgeFitzhugh
8. “Was It A Profitable Institution?”
Profitability of the Plantation;
� CASH WEALTH
� PROPERTY WEALTH
Ulrich Phillips, author/historian
argued that slavery was not an
efficient form of industry…
Author/Professor at
University of California at
Berkeley Kenneth M. Stampp
wrote a book entitled The
Peculiar Institution: Slavery in
the Ante-Bellum South in
which he argued against that
of Phillips… that slavery was
very profitable.
9. Thomas Jefferson…
a) The President…
b) The Slaveowner…
c) The author of… “We hold these
truths to be self evident that ALL
men are created EQUAL…”
Monticello
was
Thomas
Jefferson’s
5,000 Acre
Plantation
Monticello
Issac Jefferson…
a slave from
Monticello.
10. “Po-Buckra” or the Southern
socioeconomic class of the “White-Trash”
and/or the “Dirt-Eater.”
Upper class (plantation owners)
Middle class (subsistence farm land Middle class (subsistence farm land owner; owns some slaves)
Lower class (subsistence farm renter; may own a slave/s)
Slaves (owned by others; no rights or freedoms)
Po-Buckra (white field hand worker; cannot afford to farm their own land)
11. The Rise of the Anti-Slavery sentiment in the United States…
a) Abolitionism
(1) William Lloyd Garrison (The Liberator)
(2) Frederick Douglass (The North Star)
b) Armed revolt
(1) Denmark Vessy 1822
(2) Nat Turner 1831
(3) John Brown 1859
c) The Courts
(1) The Amistad vs. United States 1839
(2) Dred Scott Case 1857
J.Q. Adams
RogerBaldwin
Baldwin defending the Amistad Africans
John Brown
Dred ScottFrederickDouglass
WilliamLloyd
Garrison
Cinque; led slave revolt on the Amistad
RESA:
Underground
Railroad (25 min)