Chapter 11 - Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Male slave owners

________ had frequent sexual relationships with the female slaves on their plantations; the children of those unions became part of the plantation labor force and served as a constant reminder to white women of their husbands infidelity.

Nat Turner

In 1831, ________, a slave preacher, led a band of African Americans who armed themselves with guns and axes and, on a summer night, went from house to house in Southampton County, Virginia.

Civil War

There were about 250, 000 free African Americans in the slaveholding states by the start of the ________, more than half of them in Virginia and Maryland.

Slaves

________ generally received at least enough necessities to enable them to live and work.

African American religion

________ was often more emotional than that of its white counterparts and reflected the influence of African customs and practices.

Black religion

________ was also more joyful and affirming than that of many white denominations.

Tobacco prices

________ were subject to frequent depressions, including a prolonged one that began in the 1820s and extended into the 1850s.

Black women

________ generally began bearing children at younger ages than most white women, often as early as age fourteen or fifteen.

slave labor system

The ________ had a mixed impact on white women.

slave family

The ________ was the other crucial institution of black culture in the South.

Cotton production

________ dominated the more recently settled areas of what came to be known as the "lower South "(or, in a later era, the "Deep South)