What % of slaves worked in cotton production? What % in tobacco? What % in sugar, rice and hemp? What % were domestic servants? What % of slaves lived in towns/worked in a variety of industries?
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Card 17
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By 1860, how many FREE blacks (approximately) were there in the South? What did Southern free blacks have to carry at all times? Why? How many blacks lived in the North in 1860?
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Card 18
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How many states allowed blacks to vote on terms of parity with whites in 1860? By 1861 what did Northern blacks have? Who published 'The Impending Crisis' in 1857? What did he argue? Who followed/supported this man?
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Card 19
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Which recent historians have argued that slavery was an efficient form of economic organisation, not deterring the Southern economy? What happened to slave prices in the 1850s? What did this mean for slave investors?
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Card 20
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Why can the South lagging behind the North in industrial development be seen as a sign of its economic health? From 1840-60, what did the increase in per capita incme in the South exceed? What could slavery be seen as also (socially)?
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Card 21
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Who claimed that Southern slave agriculture, as a result of specialisation, careful management and economies of scale, was 35% more efficient than small-scale family farming?
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Card 22
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Who said that slavery was benign and benevolent and that slaves and their owners were marked by 'gentleness, kind-hearted friendship and mutual loyalty'? Who said that slavery was harsh, caused persistent conflict and were 'a troublesome property'?
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Who produced 'Time on the Cross' and said that slave conditions were reasonably good and slavery was an efficient system of labour, and that the slaves were controlled with minimal force?
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Card 24
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Who had more seats in the House of Representatives - North or South? Therefore, what was the other side determined to do? What did this mean?
