HIS 108 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Cotton Gin, Peculiar Institution, White Southerners
27 Apr 2019
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9. 1 building a diverse cotton kingdom: many myths obscure our understanding of the antebellum south, antebellum south: term used to refer to the approximately three decades before 1860 when. It was not a monolithic society composed of large cotton plantations worked by. King cotton and slave labor dominated the economy of the southern states. hundreds of slaves, most southern whites weren"t even slaveholders: most southern farmers lived in two-room cabins; cotton was king, but it wasn"t the. Kentucky) and the newer lower black belt south (south carolina to eastern only crop. Some masters were kind, but many were not; some slaves were contended, but most were not: there were many souths, the older upper south (virginia, maryland, north carolina, although the south was diverse, agriculture dominated its economy. In the 20 years preceding the civil war, the south"s economy grew slightly faster than the.
