PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Free Free, Paternalism, Solomon Northup
12 Jul 2016
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Raped repeatedly by slave-owner and became pregnant twice. Fell in love with george, another slave of her master"s. Wanted her to choose between master and him. She clubbed/killed her master and burned his body in the fire. Celia was found guilty of murder by an all-white male jury and executed: courts did not recognize rape of a slave as a crime. Cotton replaced sugar as world"s major slave crop. Cotton kingdom could not have developed without internal slave trade. Second middle passage: to replace foreign slave trade that bad been banned in us in. Northern ships carried cotton, northern banks financed southern plantations, northern companies insured slave property, and northern factories spun southern cotton into cloth. Upper south: slaves and owners were a much smaller percentage compared to deep. South states (from south carolina to texas: had some manufacturing, while deep south depended entirely on cotton.
