EDUC247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: White Southerners, Tough Love, Military Science
16 May 2016
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The ante-belum south: enslaved children, southern women & their education, southern honor, military academies. Enslaved children: slave owners made sure there were at least decent nutrition for slaves. Still wasn"t great: up to age 12, slave children played with white boys and girls, did chores but nothing to strenuous. But after 12 work shifts to working hard in the field: no former provision of schooling and in many southern states was illegal. Didn"t want slaves to be able to read propaganda from the. White southerners: on a typical plantation, you would be interacting with at least five different important people, overseers: could be white or black, masters: b. i. Children- friends to black children to a point but a quick split once 12 b. ii. Wife- might extend some kindness and some taught blacks to read: parents: might or might not be on the same plantation.
