Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 10, Lesson 3: The Other Souths (pp. 298-305)
I. The Neglected Majority
B. Yeoman farmers, who grew crops and raised livestock for their own use, as well as a small amount of a cash crop, usually owned no slaves.
C. Settlers in the Appalachian Mountains hunted and grew only enough crops for their own families, not enough for trade.
B. Although wealthy white people were generally well-educated, the majority of white people were not.
C. Slaves were generally forbidden to learn to read or write, although some did so anyway.
B. Free blacks were not allowed to vote, read, write, or travel freely, and they could be whipped or sold in slavery as a punishment.
C. Economics and fear made Southern whites reluctant to free slaves and to grant free blacks true freedom.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. The majority of white Southerners were yeoman farmers and mountain settlers who did not own slaves.
II. The Urban South
A. There were fewer cities in the South than in the North but they were filled with artisans, former slaves, and wealthy white plantation owners.
III. Free Blacks
A. Thousands of free blacks lived in cities in the South, using the skills they had learned as slaves to earn a living.
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