* Southern slavery * Age of flexibility (1619-1680) * South Carolina
Slave Majority * Slave codes
-status of the mother
-chattel slavery-slaves are not even people, no rights
-miscegenation
After the revolutionary war:
Economics- economy based on agriculture in south, so slaves are key
Land expansion
Property rights
Scientific racism * carl Linnaeus
Haitian revolution (1791-1804) scares americans -Toussaint L’ouverture
Scientific Racism
Africans-slow, relaxed, negligent, to be called blacks
Native americans- to be called red, eager,
Europeans- pale, muscular, swift, clever, inventive
Abolition in the north * Gradual emancipation * Immediate