HIST 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Frontier, Middle Passage, Codependency
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The transition between a society with slaves to a slave society in the colonial period had set the south on a very different course throughout the formative years of the us. Slavery as an institution became ingrained in the very fabric of southern economy. While the elite planter class was the minority, the culture associated with plantation lifestyle became the standard to which most southerner aspired. The emergence of the cotton kingdom only perpetrated the spread of slavery and southern culture spread with it. Slavery was also interwoven into politics as the 3/5 clause and the effects of slave economy on the nation preserved the balance of power. Overtime, the south began to reflect more traditional social structures and perceived northern industrialization as a threat to their way of life. Eli whitney"s cotton gin and the rise of industrialization changed the face of the cotton industry.
