SLAVERY: THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION

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SLAVERY THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION
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Slavery in Decline

• Slave Fugitives
• Slave Trade
• Declining De-mand in Upper South
• Revolutionary Ideals of Liberty and Equality

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Slave Fugitive
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Revival and Expansion of Slavery

• Long-Staple Versus Short-Staple Cotton
• Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin
• Souths Ideal Climate

Cotton Gin in Operation
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Advertisement for Cotton Gin
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Loading the Cotton from a Cotton Gin
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Consequences of the Shift to Cotton

• Industrialization Retarded
• Slavery Revived
• and Expanded
• Encouraged Large-Scale Farming
• Massive Shift of
• Blacks
• Slavery Profitable

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Rising Cost of Prime Field Hands, 1800-60
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Traits of Slaves I

• Occupations

Nurse
Cook
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Traits of Slaves II

• Size of Work Force
• Myth of Slaveholding

Slaves Carrying Cotton to the Cotton Gin
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Slave Labor

• Slave versus Free Labor
• Children as a Source of Labor
• Work Schedule

Slave Family
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Punishment of Slaves

• Extent of Punishment?
• Typical Punishment
• Comparison with Slavery in Other Parts of Western
  Hemisphere

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Illustrations of Methods of Punishment
Scarring on Slave in Richmond, Virginia
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Whipping of Slaves
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Regulation of Slaves

• Slave Codes
• Recognized as Property
• Ambivalent Status
• Control of Social Behavior

Slave Auctions
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Southern Justification of Slavery

• Biblical
• Historical
• Legal
• Constitution
• Runaway Slaves
• Scientific
• Pseudo-Science of Phrenology
• Paternalism

Slave Fugitives
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Phrenology Calipers