THE SLAVE SOUTH
1. 1808
-------- Cotton accounts for more than 60 percent of nation’s exports Southern legislatures enact slave codes Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World Arkansas admitted to Union as slave state Suffrage extended throughout South to all adult white males Texas and Florida admitted to Union as slave states Nat Turner’s rebellion Denmark Vesey executed External slave trade outlawed
2. 1810s– 1850s
-------- Cotton accounts for more than 60 percent of nation’s exports Southern legislatures enact slave codes Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World Arkansas admitted to Union as slave state Suffrage extended throughout South to all adult white males Texas and Florida admitted to Union as slave states Nat Turner’s rebellion Denmark Vesey executed External slave trade outlawed
3. 1820s– 1830s
-------- Cotton accounts for more than 60 percent of nation’s exports Southern legislatures enact slave codes Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World Arkansas admitted to Union as slave state Suffrage extended throughout South to all adult white males Texas and Florida admitted to Union as slave states Nat Turner’s rebellion Denmark Vesey executed External slave trade outlawed
4. 1822
-------- Cotton accounts for more than 60 percent of nation’s exports Southern legislatures enact slave codes Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World Arkansas admitted to Union as slave state Suffrage extended throughout South to all adult white males Texas and Florida admitted to Union as slave states Nat Turner’s rebellion Denmark Vesey executed External slave trade outlawed
5. 1829
-------- Cotton accounts for more than 60 percent of nation’s exports Southern legislatures enact slave codes Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World Arkansas admitted to Union as slave state Suffrage extended throughout South to all adult white males Texas and Florida admitted to Union as slave states Nat Turner’s rebellion Denmark Vesey executed External slave trade outlawed
6. 1831
-------- Cotton accounts for more than 60 percent of nation’s exports Southern legislatures enact slave codes Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World Arkansas admitted to Union as slave state Suffrage extended throughout South to all adult white males Texas and Florida admitted to Union as slave states Nat Turner’s rebellion Denmark Vesey executed External slave trade outlawed
7. 1836
-------- Cotton accounts for more than 60 percent of nation’s exports Southern legislatures enact slave codes Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World Arkansas admitted to Union as slave state Suffrage extended throughout South to all adult white males Texas and Florida admitted to Union as slave states Nat Turner’s rebellion Denmark Vesey executed External slave trade outlawed
8. 1840
-------- Cotton accounts for more than 60 percent of nation’s exports Southern legislatures enact slave codes Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World Arkansas admitted to Union as slave state Suffrage extended throughout South to all adult white males Texas and Florida admitted to Union as slave states Nat Turner’s rebellion Denmark Vesey executed External slave trade outlawed
9. 1845
-------- Cotton accounts for more than 60 percent of nation’s exports Southern legislatures enact slave codes Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World Arkansas admitted to Union as slave state Suffrage extended throughout South to all adult white males Texas and Florida admitted to Union as slave states Nat Turner’s rebellion Denmark Vesey executed External slave trade outlawed