The Plantation South and Slavery

 Yeoman Farmers
      -Corn
      -Hogs

Plantations
       -Cotton
      -Corn

Capitalist or Feudalistic Economy
      -Lewis Gray
      -Eugene Genovese

Influence of Africa
      -Ulrich B. Phillips,
            -American Negro Slavery (1918)
            -Life and Labor in the Old South (1927)
                  -Music
                  -Dance
                  -Folk Tales
                  -Gullah
                  -Rituals
                       -Call and Response

Culture of Slavery
      -Stanley Elkins, Slavery (1960)
           -Sambo
      -Kenneth Stampp,
           -The Peculiar Institution (1956)
                 -"To Make Them Stand in Fear"
      -John Blassingame,
           -The Slave Community (1972)

      -Plantation Routine
           -House Slaves
           -Field Slaves

      -Mulattos
           -Thomas Jefferson
           -Sally Hemmings
           -Mary Chestnut

      -Religion

Profitability of Slavery
      -U.B. Phillips (1927)
      -Lewis Gray (1933)
      -Thomas Govan (1942)
      -Alfred H. Conrad & John R, Meyer (1959)
             -Commodity Output Per Capita
                   -in Agriculture and Manufacturing
                            $76 = Northeast
                            $77 = South
                            $64 = Old Northwest

A Healthy Economy?

A Republican Society?



  
Growth of Cotton & Slavery
  
     Slave Imports                


             Tara

  
      Growing Cotton             Cotton Production


         Dance

   
   Plantation Layout 
   
                       Slave Quarters


       Southern Crops


        Slave Prices

  
Slaves as a Percent             Slaves per slaveholder
of Total Population