The Antebellum Plantation South

Yeoman Farms
     -Subsistence Farming
            -Hogs
            -Open Range

Plantations
     -Cotton
     -Corn

Profitability
     -U.B. Phillips (1918, 1927)
     -Lewis Gray (1934)
     -Thomas Govan (1942)
     -Kenneth Stampp (1956)
     -Alfred H. Conrad & John R. Meyer (1959)

Regional Income
     -Commodity Output Per Capita (1860)
             -Northeast  = $78
             -Northwest = $64
             -South         = $77

Healthy Economy?
    -Annual Increase in Demand for Cotton
            -1830-1860 = 5.0%
            -1865-1895 = 1.5%

Antebellum Southern Industry

 

 
Growth of Cotton and Slaves

 
Cotton Exports, 1800-1860

 
      Plantation Layout


     Slaves, 1790


        Slaves, 1820


         Slaves, 1860


Cotton Production, 1820-1860