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The Good Ol’ South

Myth

Why I just adore living in the

South!

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vs. Reality

All by myself…don’t wanna be

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Slave Quarters on a South Carolina Plantation, 1860

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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Yeoman Farmer Tenant Farmer

Plantation Owners Slaves

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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Tenant Farmers

• Rented land or worked on their landowners estate

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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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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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"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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Slave Sale in Easton, MD.

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