UNDERSTANDING THE SLAVE SOUTH

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UNDERSTANDING THE SLAVE SOUTH

1820–1860

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> How did slavery shape the institutions and values of the antebellum South? Chapter 13 explores the emergence and development of a distinctive slave society in the American South. It examines the causes and consequences of the divergence of North and South, the social world of the plantation, and the lives of nonslaveholding whites and free blacks. Finally, it assesses the impact of slavery on southern politics.

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Figure false: Slave quarter. This early photograph depicts a slave family in Savannah, Georgia, ca. 1860. Collection of the New-York Historical Society.