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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

Analyze the complex relations among the different elements of southern society: planter-aristocrats, small planters, poor whites, slaves, and free blacks. Contrast the dominant slaveholding elite with the mass of poorer whites who nevertheless supported slavery.

REFERENCES: Bruce Collins, White Society in the Antebellum South (1985); Ira Berlin, Slaves Without Masters (1975).

Examine the nature of slavery. Explain how slavery was both an economic institution and a social system that shaped whites and blacks alike, including their social and family life.

REFERENCE: Brenda Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (1996).

Describe the lives of blacks under slavery. Show both the burdens of the system and the slaves struggles to survive and maintain their humanity.

REFERENCE: Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll (1976).

Explain the various responses to slavery, from radical abolitionism to the defense of slavery as a positive good, and why the abolitionists had such a great impact even though they were an unpopular minority.

REFERENCE: Lewis Perry and Michael Fellman, Antislavery Reconsidered (1979).