Notes Chap 11 Sec 2 Plantations and Slavery

Plantations and Slavery Spread Section 2
Cotton Boom

* Whitney's cotton gin (short for engine) made the cotton-cleaning far more efficient.
* A worker can now clean up 50 pounds of cotton per day.
* The cotton gin helped set the South on a different course of develop,enter from the North.

Southern life changed because of The cotton boom:

1. it triggered a mass move westward.
2. Planters grew more cotton rather than other goods.
3. More Native Americans groups were driven of Southern Land.

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* After 1808, it became illegal to import Africans for use in slavery. The trading of slaves in the country increased.


* Slaveholders with large plantations were the wealthiest and most powerful people in the South.


* Most white Southern farmers owned few or no slaves.

Roots Episode 2:


* Kunta has been there for about two months.
* Learns hoe to speak English by Fiddler when he speaks to him.
* Junta catches a cricket and tells it to tell his family that he's going to find a way to escape.
* Kunta broke his leg chains with a piece of broken metal he found. Fiddler lets him go when he realizes he broke off his chains.

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* Spiritual often contained coded messages.
* The cruelest part of slavery was the sale of family members were seperated from their mother.

Slave Rebellion

* The most famous rebellion was led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831.
* August 21 (Turner and 70 followers killed 53 white men, women and children)
* turner's men were mostly captured when their ammo went out and 16 were killed. Turner got caught and hung.
* Resulted in harsher slave codes.
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