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| planter aristocracy | the elite class that dominated society and politics in the South during the Antebellum period |
| antebellum period | Approximately 1820's to 1861. Time period BEFORE the Civil War. |
| plantation agriculture | The extensive use of cotton crops that ruined the land, economically unstable, and wasteful. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Trancendentalist writer who said "We must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom." |
| subsistence farming | Farming that barely provides the essentials of life: shelter and food. The majority of white farmers in the South (75% of the population) were subsistence farmers. |
| mountain whites | Southern subsistence farmers who were against slavery as they did not benefit and were PRO UNION when the Civil War began. |
| "greatest psychological horror" | Textbook description of the worst side of slavery: the forced separation of entire families. |
| "black belt" | This term referred to the Deep South States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. |
| theory of biological racial superiority | Developed by slave owners as a justification for their brutal treatment of slaves and fear of slave rebellions. |
| stable two-parent households | Against the sterotype, most slaves were raised in these homes. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, book that accurately portrayed the heartbreak of slavery, the separation of families. |
| Frederick Douglass | Black abolitionist who publishes the newspaper THE NORTH STAR and advocates the end of slavery through political means |
| William Lloyd Garrison | White abolitionist who published the newspaper THE LIBERATOR |
| Theodore Dwight Weld | Writes AMERICAN SLAVERY AS IT IS and gets kicked out of clergy school for sponsoring a 18 day debate on slavery. |
| David Walker | Writes APPEAL TO THE COLORED CITIZENS OF THE WORLD. |
| American Colonization Society | Started by Garrison and his followers. |
| Anti Slavery Society | Began after the American Colonization Society |
| Liberty Party | Organized after both the colonization society and anti slavery society to help end slavery through politics. |
| Elijah Lovejoy | Abolitionist martry (he dies for the cause). |
| white Southern Abolitionism | Anti slavery individuals who existed in the South until their voices were silenced in the 1830's |
| Southern Pro Slavery Individuals | Found themselves in the tiny minority after 1830 as much of the western world wanted the end of slavery. |
