HIST 127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Solomon Northup, White Southerners
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Most white southerners in the antebellum period owned no slaves. Average slave worked in the fields, mainly cotton plantations. Point of slaves on plantation = labors. Gang system gang of slaves led by one black slave and overseen by a white overseer. 1850"s 5% of slaves worked in manufacturing slaves described their owners as nice, christian people (solomon. Masters gave some slaves incentives, well behaved slaves may get their own garden patches. Force also used to get slaves to work. Provided by masters allowed them to live, they were fed, healthy, Large plantations had slave quarters earth floor, no windows (no could reproduce glass if anything) Paul cameron built cutting edge slave cabins (stageville salve. But families were encouraged, masters wanted relationships/reproduction. 2 million people were sold in the interstate slave in late 1800s. Enslaved family, beaufort sc (1860) family with a lot of children. Building a family was recognized by the slaves,
