Slavery And The Old South
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Do Now: What were the “classes” of Southern culture? What were the characteristics of each?
A duty and a burden A planter in financial difficulty said he dreaded the “miserable occupation of seeing to Negroes, and attending to their wants and sickness and to making them do their duty— and after all have no prospect of being paid for my trouble.”
Planters’ wives Cult of domesticity Double standard Care for family AND slaves
Justification Increasing need to justify the practice Until 1830s, “a necessary evil” After, a “positive good”
Many arguments BiblicalHistorical Legal Scientific
Emancipation is heartless! “Wage slaves”
A Day in the Life… Average day= 14 hours in summer, 10 in winter Gangs Task system
House slaves “perks”
Difficulties
Treatment Varied by master and master’s mood Marriages Sexual abuse
A duty and a burden A planter in financial difficulty said he dreaded the “miserable occupation of seeing to Negroes, and attending to their wants and sickness and to making them do their duty— and after all have no prospect of being paid for my trouble.”
Planters’ wives Cult of domesticity Double standard Care for family AND slaves
Justification Increasing need to justify the practice Until 1830s, “a necessary evil” After, a “positive good”
Many arguments BiblicalHistorical Legal Scientific
Emancipation is heartless! “Wage slaves”
A Day in the Life… Average day= 14 hours in summer, 10 in winter Gangs Task system
House slaves “perks”
Difficulties
Treatment Varied by master and master’s mood Marriages Sexual abuse
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