These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. Lecture 26 Outline of Last Lecture Masters and Slaves: The Failure of Southern Social Reform I. The Slave System and Destabilizing External Pressures A. The Emergence of Radical Social Reform Movements 1. The Women’s Rights Movement and Autonomy for Women 2. The American Antislavery Society and Radical Abolitionism B. The Proslavery Response 1. Passage of Restrictive Legislation by Southern Legislatures 2. Slavery as a Necessary Evil Becomes Slavery as a Positive Good II. The Slave System and Destabilizing Internal Pressures A. Urban Growth and the Creation of “Free” Labor? 1. Hiring Out and the Profit Motive B. Living Out and the Expansion of the African American Community C. The Failure of Southern Social Reform 1. Religion: Does the Slave Have a Soul? 2. Public Education: Does the Slave Have a Mind of His Own? D. The Use of Force 1. Houses of Correction 2. Slave Revolts: Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner, 1831 Outline of Current Lecture The Reproduction of Slavery and Geographic Expansion Geographic Expansion as an Attempt to Secure Slavery - The Problem of Soil Exhaustion - The Agricultural Reform Movement and Slave Resistance - The Inter-Regional Slave Trade: Salvation or Disaster? Expansion as Itself Destabilizing to Slavery as an Institution The Separation of the Slave Family - Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Increasing Abolitionist Popularity - Slaveholder’s Attempts at Domestic Reform Current Lecture The Reproduction of Slavery and Geographic Expansion Geographic Expansion as an Attempt to Secure Slavery - The Problem of Soil Exhaustion Hist 1000o As farming and agriculture become the stable of the west and south, the soil soon became exhausted  The soil is not as fertile and did not give the best/most crops as it used to  Caused farmers and families still dependent on crops to become bankrupt, in debt, or lose money - The Agricultural Reform Movement and Slave Resistance o Caused people to change their view and intention towards agriculture  Protected the farmers and limited the government on taxing o Slave resistance was the slaves rebelling against their masters  Running away or causing damage or killing  Also people began to help slaves, like whites, thought that it was inhumane - The Inter-Regional Slave Trade: Salvation or Disaster? o Salvation  Made a small market within the US, mostly south  Gave cheap/abundant labor for farming o Disaster  Inhumane to keep people as slaves  Caused disputes in government and created divisions in the US Expansion as Itself Destabilizing to Slavery as an Institution - The Separation of the Slave Family - Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Increasing Abolitionist Popularity o In the north and parts of the south, abolition was becoming very popular o People were realizing that these people were not very different from ourselves and treating them like property was very wrong - Slaveholder’s Attempts at Domestic Reform o They tried to make laws that would protect the slaves, but ultimately there was no way to enforce