1. The Good Ol’ South

2. Myth
Why I just adore
living in the
South!
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3. vs. Reality
All by myself…
don’t wanna be
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4. Slave Quarters on a South
Carolina Plantation, 1860

5. Industry in the South
• Stayed agricultural because farming
was so profitable
• Lack of capital to invest in industry
• Money was invested in land and slaves
• The market in the south was smaller
than that in the North
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6. Yeoman Farmer Tenant Farmer
Plantation Owners Slaves

7. Yeoman Farmers
• Largest group in the South
• Their farms ranged from 50-200 acres
• Grew crops for their own use and to sell
• Lived in one story houses or log cabins
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8. Tenant Farmers
• Rented land or worked on their
landowners estate
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9. Plantation Owners
• Small percentage of the population
• Owned more than half of the slaves
• Plantations could be up to several thousand
acres
• Measured wealth by slaves and their
possessions
• Many were kept in debt because they sold
their cotton to agents who kept the product
until it could be sold at a higher price
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10. The Enslaved
• Most worked as field hands
• Planted and raised crops from sun up to
sun down
• Domestic slaves worked in the house.
– Cooked, cleaned, served meals, etc.
• Others were trained as blacksmiths or
carpenters
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15. "Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in
bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was
whipped; he discharged the overseer. The very words of
poor Peter, taken as he sat for his picture."
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16. Slave Sale in Easton, MD.
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