Slideshow created by Pearson detailing the conditions of slavery in the South prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War. Content owned by Pearson, from the textbook and American Journey.
{"38":"This contemporary woodcut of Nat Turner’s Rebellion depicts the fervency of both the actions of the slaves and the response of the whites.\n","44":"Colonel James A. Whiteside and his family were among the small elite of white southerners who enjoyed the wealth and ease of life on a large plantation. Reflecting the ideal of patriarchy, this portrait, c. 1858, projects the colonel as a figure of power and authority.\nJames Cameron (1817–1882), “Colonel and Mrs. James A. Whiteside, Son Charles and servants,” oil on canvas; c. 1858–1859.Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whiteside. 1975.7.\n","33":"Satirically entitled Virginian Luxuries, this antislavery painting sought to expose how the unchecked power of slaveowners resulted in the physical beating and sexual abuse of their slaves.\n","11":"FIGURE 11–1 U.S. Cotton Production, 1800–1860\nCotton production spiraled upward after 1800, and the South became the world’s leading supplier.\nData Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States (1960).\n","50":"FIGURE 11–3 Slave, Free Black, and White Population in Southern States, 1850\nExcept for Texas, slaves by 1850 comprised over 40 percent of the population in every state of the Lower South. The small population of free black people was concentrated in the Upper South.\n","39":"After fleeing from slavery in Maryland in 1849,Harriet “Moses” Tubman, standing on the left, risked reenslavement by returning to the South on several occasions to assist in the escapes of other slaves. She is photographed here with some of those she helped free.\n","56":"As this printed label from the 1850s for a box of cigars reveals, antebellum manufacturers of consumer goods produced by slave labor had every incentive to present an idealized picture of slave life in the South.\n","23":"FIGURE 11–2 The Changing Regional Pattern of Slavery in the South, 1800–1860\nAs the nineteenth century progressed, slavery increasingly became identified with the cotton-growing Lower South.\n","51":"Barbering was one of the skilled trades open to black men during the antebellum years. Several wealthy African Americans began their careers as barbers.\n","29":"This scene of slaves standing in a dirt lane flanked by the slave cabins on a South Carolina plantation in Hilton Head was captured by a Union photographer in 1862.\n","18":"MAP 11–2 Cotton and Other Crops in the South, 1860\nMost of the Upper South was outside the cotton belt, where the demand for slave labor was greatest.\n","24":"The internal slave trade was the primary means by which the slaves of the Upper South were brought into the plantation markets of the Old Southwest. This illustration shows professional slave traders driving a chained group of slaves, known as a coffle, to prospective buyers in the Lower South.\nCollection of The New-York Historical Society\n","30":"Especially on large plantations, slave nursemaids cared for the young children in the white planter’s family.\n","19":"BMW employees on an assembly line in Greer, South Carolina.\n","14":"Like most slave traders, Thomas Griggs of Charleston offered cash for ill slaves he purchased.\n","3":"The spectacle of the slave market was commonplace in the cities of the antebellum South. The above scene is of a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia.\n","20":"A common scene at harvest time in the Lower South: slaves working in a cotton field under the supervision of a white overseer, shown here mounted on his horse.\n","10":"MAP 11–1 The Spread of Slavery: New Slave States Entering the Union, 1800–1850.\nSeven slave states entered the Union after 1800 as cotton production shifted westward.\n"}