HW for 4/14

Please read pages 303-310. Please answer these questions:

1. What were slave codes? What function did they serve? How were they applied?
2. How was slave life shaped by the slave's relationship with his or her owner?
3. Explain the debate over the actual material condition of slavery.
4. How did slavery in the cities differ from slavery on the plantation? What effect did urban slavery have on the "peculiar institution" and on the relationship between white and black?
5. How extensive was the practice of manumission in the South?
6. What was the status of the freed slave in the South? How did this compare with the status of freed people in the North?
7. Explain the characteristics of the foreign and domestic slave trade. On what grounds was this trade criticized? How did the South answer this criticism?
8. How did the slave respond to slavery? What evidence exists to show that slaves did not accept their condition without protest and, in some cases, outright defiance?
9. What were the most widely recognized slave revolts? What did they accomplish?

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HW due 4/30

Please read pages 294-298.
Answer the following questions:
1. What was "the most important economic development in the South of the mid-nineteenth century?" What caused this, and what was its economic impact?
2. What were the agricultural regions of the South, and what crops were grown in each?
3. How did cotton become "king" in the South? What did this mean for the development of the region?
4. What role did the "business class" in the South play in the region's economic development? What elements was most important in this group, and why?
5. What is meant by the antebellum South had a "colonial" economy?

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Slave Culture

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Slavery and the Old South

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