In the antebellum South, slavery provided the economic foundation that supported the dominant planter ruling class. Under slavery the structure of white supremacy was hierarchical and patriarchal, resting on male privilege and masculinist honor, entrenched economic power, and raw force.
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Slavery in the United States had its origins with the first English colonization of North America in Virginia in 1607, although African slaves were brought to Spanish Florida as early as the 1560s. H...
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Slavery Grows in the South ... The masters of slaves made high profits from owning slaves and this had a greater influence on them than the people who argued against slavery. Throughout the South, most southern people remained supportive of slavery.
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Drinking Gourd Song ... When the sun comes back and the first quail calls, Follow the Drinking Gourd. For the old man is waiting for to carry you to freedom, If you follow the Drinking Gourd. ... The river bank makes a very good road, The dead trees show you the way, Left foot, peg foot, traveling on Follow the Drinking Gourd.
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Coffles of slaves traveled across the South, headed to market, with the men or the more resistant chained together ... Though the importation of slaves to the United States was banned starting in 1808, the nation's slave population grew at an average of 27 percent per decade after 1810, as children were born into slavery.
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The Heyward-Washington House in Charleston, South Carolina, named after its owner, Daniel Heyward, and George Washington, who visited the house in 1791, offers a glimpse of what life was like for the slaves who served an urban Southern family.
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Rise and Fall of the Old South ... The Slave South in 19th century ... slavery mild...
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