The
South's Peculiar Institution
Thomas Jefferson
-"Necessary Evil"
John C. Calhoun
-"Positive Good"
Cotton Culture
Influence of Africa
-Ulrich B. Phillips,
-American Negro Slavery (1918)
-Life and Labor in the
Old South (1927)
-School House of Civilization
-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, 1979)
-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)
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Crops,
1860

Southern Crops

Growth of the
Cotton Kingdom,
1820-1860

Plantation Layout |