HIST315 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 - Slavery and South Before the Civil War Excellent note!!! Very in-depth and elaborated based on the lectures in class
16 Oct 2011
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The peculiar institution: slavery & the south before the civil war. 1937, us government hired unemployed historians to go around us and collect oral history of few remaining slaves. Was not aware of her date of birth. Grew up with her mother and five sisters. Lived in slave quarters, edge of plantation by the fields with very little furniture and dirt floors. Masters supplied food for their slaves (corn meal, beans, rice). Most slaves worked in the fields and days were long. Slaves could be sold at anytime, could not own property, enter into contracts, everything they produced belonged to masters, tied to masters households, could not leave without permission. Spent their entire lifetime these horrible condition. Helped by participating in religious activities, told their own songs, stories, and own language (gullah). Sometimes friendships developed between whites and african americans. Some masters routinely sexually assaulted african american women. In 1822, an ex-slave denmark basey, planned a revolt around charleston.
