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Nat Turner's Rebellion

Rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves through virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families

Folktales

stories with a moral, often dealing with animal characters and themes of overcoming adversity-used by slaves and passed through mouth

Eli Whitney

Invented the cotton gin

Spirituals

Religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery

Type of work in urban areas for slaves

servants or construction worker

Type of work in rural areas for slaves

farms and agriculture

What constant threats did slaves encounter

having a family member sold off and harsh punishments

Ways free African Americans living in the south obtained their freedom

Running away -By being freed by their slaveholder -By earning enough money to buy their freedom -By being freed following the American Revolution

examples of discrimination did free African Americans face

They could not represent themselves in business transactions.

Yeoman and poor whites

owned small farms with few slaves- majority

Examples of planters showing off wealth

by building large, beautiful mansions

Why did some industry develop in the south

to support the needs of farmers

Advantages of growing cotton

-It costed little to market-It could be stored for a very long amount of time-It was so light that it costed very little for transporting the goods-high demand

Cotton boom and the effect it had on slavery

demand for slaves increased and caused slavery to go on for much longer

Ways slaves resisted slavery

purposely damaging equipment, worked slow, ran away

Wife's role on the plantation

Raising her children and supervising household slaves

Jobs of slaves on the plantation

field labor, house labor, and thinks like blacksmiths

legal activities for free African Americans living in the south

owning property and able to work as paid laborers

groups of people in the south

plantes, yeomen, slaves, and free african americans

Why was more land needed for growing cotton

America was the top producer of cotton so to continue to make money they needed more land

What major groups made up white society in the Antebellum South

planters, yeomen, and poor whites