Chapter 12: The South Expands: Slavery and Society, 1800-1860



Chapter 12: The South Expands: Slavery and Society, 1800–1860

I. Creating the Cotton South

1. The Domestic Slave Trade

A. The Upper South Exports Slaves

B. The Impact on Blacks

2. The Dual Cultures of the Planter Elite

A. The Traditional Southern Gentry

B. The Ideology and Reality of “Benevolence”

C. Cotton Entrepreneurs

3. Planters, Smallholding Yeomen, and Tenants

A. Planter Elites

B. Smallholding Planters and Yeomen

C. Poor Freemen

4. The Settlement of Texas

5. The Politics of Democracy

A. The Politics of Taxation

B. The Paradox of Southern Prosperity

II. The African American World

1. Evangelical Black Protestantism

A. Black Protestantism

2. Forging Families and Creating Culture

A. African Influences

3. Negotiating Rights

4. The Free Black Population

A. Northern Free Blacks

B. Standing for Freedom in the South

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