Peculiar Institution

Old South

Cotton is King

Agrarian Lifestyle

Plantation

100 or more slaves

Paternalistic

control/responsibility

Second Middle Passage

The North was heavily invested industrialization

Slaves were considered property

Legal system favored owners over slaves

Life Under Slavery

Weren't allowed to learn

Community/Family

Families were torn apart

Brutal manual labor

Fed protein/frutis

Slave Culture

Downtime/It was controlled

Resistance to Slavery

Learning to read, write, and math