美国奴隶和棉花种植.pptVIP

;The Cotton Gin;Cotton Production in the South, 1820–1860;Cotton Production;Cotton Exports as a Percentage of All U.S. Exports, 1800–1860;Between 1820-1860, cotton fueled the entire American market economy!;;Slave Population, 1820–1860;In 1820, cotton production and slavery was concentrated in the upper south. By 1860, cotton production and slavery had spread to the lower south. From the 1840s forward, cotton production made the southern economy stronger and wealthier than the northern economy.;As slavery grew in the South, so did what many Northerners called “The Slave Power.; The planter aristocracy - a small percent of southern society - controlled the social, political, and economic power of the south;From the first presidential election to the election of Lincoln, Southerners controlled the national government most of the time;The South held disproportionate political power under the Constitution;And the Constitution (Art. IV, Sec. 4) requires the federal government to come to the aid of any state in the event of “domestic violence.”;From 1800-1860, the Democrats used their political power to pass federal laws designed to strength slavery as a national institution; In addition, the white southern slave owners had a huge hold over the white, non-slave owning population. How, then, were they able to convince the vast majority of white southerners to fight for a system - slavery and the power of slaveholding aristocrats - in which they had no stake? White Supremacy!;This woodcut of a black father being sold away from his family appeared in The Child’s Anti-Slavery Book in 1860. ;The Slave Power and white supremacy were further reinforced by the pro-slavery rationale of John C. Calhoun;Calhoun’s argument continued that in a free labor system, labor is a commodity whose price is determined by the laws of the market. In such a system, slavery was necessary because it produced a master class that greatly differed from the ruling class of capitalist industrial s