HIST 2055 Lecture : Lecture 19
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The expansion of slavery started the civil war. Lecture 19: antebellum american slavery 1790-1860: scope and extent, maturation, short staple cotton, need slaves to produce cotton, there is an economic relation between owner and slave, system of labor and system of control. In 1860: 393,967 individual slave owners: average family size was 5. Thus nearly 2 million people involved in slave ownership. 30% of the population of the confederate states. In 1860, 72% of slave owners owned fewer than 10 slaves: 55% owned fewer than 5. If you owned 20 or more slaves you were called a planter: only 12% of the slaveholding population, but owned 47% of all slaves. Ideology of putting a kinder and gentle face on the practicing of slavery: the us and brazil being the only two countries where slavery still exists, 1. Slave owners had to manage their slaves as they managed their household: 3. Must provide for the well-being of his slaves" souls: 4.
