HSTY2034: US History to 1865 27 May 2004

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HSTY2034 US History to 186527 May 2004

• Slave Revolts and the White Majority

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Outline 1

• Resisting Slavery
• Possibilities for escape
• Denmark Vesey Conspiracy (1822)
• Nat Turner Revolt (1831)
• 2. The White Majority
• Yeoman farmers poor whites
• Planters
• Plantation mistresses

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Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman with Freed Slaves
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Capture of Nat Turner
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1831 Woodcut, Nat Turners Revolt
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Slaveholding and Class Structure in the South,
1830
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Outline 2

• 3. The Culture of Honor
• Self-control v. socially recognized honor
• Dueling
• Face value in a slave society
• Two irreconcilable cultures

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Population Patterns in the South, 1850