Plantations and Slavery Spread

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Plantations and Slavery Spread
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I. The Cotton Boom
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Eli Whitney

• Cotton was becoming too unprofitable
• One slave could only clean one pound of cotton a
  day
• He invented a cotton gin (engine)
• Now one slave could clean 50 pounds a day

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The Cotton Gin
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How the Cotton Gin Works
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Effects of the Cotton Gin

• More people began to move west
• People began to grow more cotton than other goods
  because it was valuable
• More Native Americans were pushed off their land
• Slavery increased

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II. Slavery Expands
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With the increase in cotton production came an
increase in slavery
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III. Slavery Divides the South
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Cotton Production in the South
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Compare/Contrast Slaves/Owners
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IV. Finding Strength in Religion
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Slave Religion

• Some slaveholders used religion to make slaves
  accept their treatment
• Slaves were inspired by the stories of Moses and
  folk tales
• Slaves expressed their religion through religious
  folk songs called spirituals

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V. Slave Rebellions
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Nat Turners Rebellion

• Led the most famous of rebellions
• 8/21/31 Turner and 70 followers killed 55
• Most of Turners men were captured or killed when
  they ran out of ammo
• Turner was caught and hanged

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Effects of Turners Rebellion

• 200 African Americans were killed in revenge
• Laws were passed to keep slaves and free African
  Americas from buying guns or alcohol
• Slaves could not hold religious services w/out a
  white person
• Anti-slavery publications were banned