01:510:261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Peculiar Institution, Paternalism, Denmark Vesey
13 May 2018
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Chapter 11 - The Peculiar Institution
1. The Old South
1. Emergence of slavery as "peculiar institution"
2. Cotton and the growth of southern slavery
1. Central place of cotton in world economy
2. Southern dominance of world cotton supply
3. Emergence of United States as center of new world slavery
3. Rise of internal slave trade
1. Pace and magnitude
2. Geographical patterns
3. Public visibility
4. Integral place in southern commerce
5. Importance to Cotton Kingdom
4. Slavery's impact on national life
1. Political
2. Economic
3. In North
1. Commerce
2. Manufacturing
4. In South
1. Vitality of plantation economy
2. Limits on industrialization, immigration, and urban
growth
3. The New Orleans exception
5. Plain folk
1. Remoteness from market revolution; self-sufficiency
2. Class strata
1. Isolated poor
2. Yeomanry
3. Relation to planter elite
1. Alienation
2. Bonds
1. Racial
2. Familial
3. Political
4. Regional
4. Investment in slave system
1. Material
2. Ideological
6. Planter elite
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1. Measures of regional dominance
1. Scale of slave ownership
2. Size and quality of landholding
3. Income
4. Political power
2. Economic engagement in world market
3. Paternalistic, non-competitive ethos
1. Defining features
2. Contributing factors
3. Influence on southern values
4. Intellectual life
7. Proslavery argument
1. Rising currency in southern thought
2. Elements of
1. Racial assumptions
2. Biblical themes
3. Notions of human progress
4. Prospects for equality among whites
3. Shift to more hierarchical defense of slavery
2. Life under slavery
1. Slaves and the law
1. General patterns
1. Status as property
2. Pervasive denial of legal rights
3. Power of slave owners over enforcement
4. Law as mechanism of master's control
2. Nineteenth-century trends
1. Legislation to humanize bondage
1. Features
2. Contributing factors
2. Legislation to tighten bondage
1. Features
2. Contributing factors
2. Free black population
1. Size
2. Social and civil stature
1. Blurry line between slavery and freedom
2. Broad denial of legal rights
3. Growing reputation as threat to slave system
4. Regional variations
1. Lower South
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