Social

● 75% of slave marriages stuck together

● Planters believed they only sold bad slaves to the south
● Plantation elite: cotton- upstart capitalist, tobacco and rice- traditional aristocrats
● Republican aristocracy
● Southern apologists- slavery = protection
● Southern wealth is less than north if u take out the slaves :c
● Free African Societies

Political
● Chattel principle- slaves= property
● Settlement of texas
○ Land grants
○ Mexico strengthened central govt and dissolved state legislatures in 1835
○ “War party” Sam Houston- Texas independence
○ “Peace party” Stephen Austin- Texas stays
● President Santa Anna of Mexico wiped out rebel Texans in Alamo
● “Remember the Alamo”- mexicans= tyrants, glorified deaths of Americans
● Alabama Constitution of 1819- secret ballot to white men (based on pop.)
● South grew but remained an economic colony while GB & the North provided industries

Interaction with Environment

● Cutt off Atlantic slave trade → smuggle slaves through Florida + Texas
● White transfer of slaves or selling → African American migration west and south
● Coastal trade in laborers
● Louisiana- slaughterhouse for slaves
● Inland system → Cotton South
● freemen/yeomen move north w e s t

Culture
● Black Protestantism- ignored sin and predestination, skipped unthinking obedience
● Nat Turner rebellion: religious rebellion
● Slave masters resort to positive incentives such as food and privileges in fear
● Free blacks= symbol of hope for slaves, danger for whites
Economics
● Primary source of slaves: Chesapeake VA ca. 1820s-1850s
● Surplus food → income
● Gang-labor system- teams + overseers
● Cotton + railroads= king
● Task system- defined job each day → more free time
○ Popular in rice lands