US History - Out of Many Ch 10
Christianity for African Americans
Was a religion of spiritual freedom helping blacks survive oppression.
The most important cause of the Old South's prosperity was
The English textile mills.
The increase in cotton production in the Lower South
Led to a thriving internal slave trade, dividing families.
Leaders of slave revolts in the nineteenth century included all of the following EXCEPT'
Absalom Jones.
African Americans sold under the internal slave trade
Were often resentful of the forced migration and labor.
The African-American slave population in the South grew as a result of higher birth rates
because
Women adopted the practice of breastfeeding for one year.
African-American house servants in the South
Had to sacrifice their own families to care for the master's.
Life for the planter elite
Was based on the paternalistic belief that the plantation was one big family.
Marriage for slaves
Was a more equal partnership than whites had.
The internal slave trade after 1820
Involved little humane feeling but generated high profits.
The development of the South as a slave society
Made the master-slave relationship the model for the whole society.
Field work on the plantations
Was labor readily and commonly enforced by the overseer's whip.
The percentage of southern white people who owned slaves in 1830 was
36 percent
Changes in the South between 1830 and 1860 included
A greater feeling of insecurity among yeoman farmers.
One of the most common violations of the plantation as one big family with the master as
benevolent father was
The forcible rape of black women by their masters.
