Peculiar Institution

Peculiar Institution

Resistance to Slavery

Learning to read, write, and math

Slave Culture

Downtime/It was controlled

Life Under Slavery

Fed protein/frutis

Brutal manual labor

Families were torn apart

Weren't allowed to learn

Community/Family

Old South

Slaves were considered property

Legal system favored owners over slaves

The North was heavily invested industrialization

Second Middle Passage

Cotton is King

Plantation

Paternalistic

control/responsibility

100 or more slaves

Agrarian Lifestyle