Learning goals:Learning goals: Explain the effect Explain the effect of the cotton gin on of the cotton gin on slavery in the slavery in the

South.South. Describe the dailyDescribe the dailylife and culture oflife and culture ofAfrican AmericansAfrican Americansin the South in thein the South in themid-1800s.mid-1800s.

Journal Prompt:Journal Prompt: If If you had escaped you had escaped from slavery, would from slavery, would you go back to help you go back to help people whom you people whom you don’t know? What don’t know? What about friends or about friends or family? Explain family? Explain your answer.your answer.

• 1. 1. The cotton gin was invented The cotton gin was invented by by Eli Whitney.Eli Whitney. He also invented He also invented interchangeable parts for guns. interchangeable parts for guns.

• 2. The cotton gin 2. The cotton gin changed the changed the South by South by encouraging encouraging Southerners to Southerners to grow more grow more cottoncotton..

Farmers in the Farmers in the South grew South grew more cotton more cotton and stopped and stopped growing other growing other crops and crops and raising as raising as many animalsmany animals

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Why is cotton an important Why is cotton an important

crop? Share your answer with crop? Share your answer with aa

neighbor. Think of a way to neighbor. Think of a way to

advertise the cotton gin. advertise the cotton gin.

• 3. 3. It became It became illegal to illegal to bring in bring in slaves from slaves from Africa in Africa in 18081808. Yet, . Yet, the enslaved the enslaved population in population in the South the South more than more than doubled doubled between 1810 between 1810 and 1840.and 1840.

A dancer from A dancer from Africa. Slaves Africa. Slaves had a distinct had a distinct culture based on culture based on their lifestyle their lifestyle from Africa.from Africa.

• 4. 4. About half of the enslaved people About half of the enslaved people in in the south worked on the south worked on plantationsplantations and and the others worked as domestic the others worked as domestic servants, skilled craftsmen, factory servants, skilled craftsmen, factory hands, and day laborers.hands, and day laborers.

•5. 5. One of One of the the cruelest cruelest parts of parts of slaveryslavery was the was the sale of sale of family family membersmembers..

Think-Pair-ShareThink-Pair-Share• What are some of the hardest What are some of the hardest

things about being a slave?things about being a slave?

• Describe the plantation where a Describe the plantation where a slave lives. How is the slave’s slave lives. How is the slave’s house different from the master’s?house different from the master’s?

•6. 6. Nat Turner, Denmark Nat Turner, Denmark Vessey, and Gabriel ProsserVessey, and Gabriel Prosser are names of slaves that are names of slaves that rebelled against their rebelled against their mastersmasters..

7. Daily 7. Daily life and culture of for African life and culture of for African Americans in the South in the mid-1800s Americans in the South in the mid-1800s hard. They had lhard. They had long, hard days on the plantation, religion was key, they took comfort in family life when allowed to work together.

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How do you think Nat How do you think Nat Turner’s uprising affected Turner’s uprising affected

the lives of southern the lives of southern slaves who did not take slaves who did not take

part in the uprising?part in the uprising?

• 8. 8. The songs in which enslaved The songs in which enslaved people of the Southpeople of the South expressed their expressed their religious beliefs or passed coded religious beliefs or passed coded messages messages were called were called spiritualsspirituals..