HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Slave Narrative, Upland South, White Supremacy
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The south"s societal structure and economic system remained pretty much unchanged throughout the antebellum period. The south"s deliberate decision to keep itself stagnant is one of the things that allows the south to be criticized by the north. Tobacco drops off from being so important has to do with the fact that during the. Revolution, britain stopped importing tobacco, by the time the revolution ended. Britain found other sources of tobacco, the industry never regained its pro tability (cotton became much more pro table) Despite the geographic restriction for rice production, it still required many slaves insofar as that labour was needed for planting and harvesting but also for painting the conditions for the ooding of rice. In the coastal area where rice grows, blacks are the majority of the population. The cotton gin is invented by eli whitney (year) he also developed the interchangeable part for the development of machinery in the north.
