HIS 201 - Chapter 11

Historians estimate that approximately ____________ slaves per year escaped to the North or Canada.

1,000

What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?

Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North.

Bennet Barrow's advice to slaveowners on slave discipline (based on rules for slaves at his Highland Plantation in Louisiana) included all of the following EXCEPT:

Allow slaves to grow some of their own food to cut down on costs.

Who said that the language in the Declaration of Independence-that all men were created equal and entitled to liberty-was "the most false and dangerous of all political errors"?

John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh:

agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good.

On the plantation, the white employee in charge of ensuring a profitable crop for the plantation master was called the:

overseer.

To qualify as a member of the planter class, a person had to be engaged in southern agriculture and:

own at least twenty slaves.

Gender roles under slavery:

differed from those of white society because men and women alike suffered a sense of powerlessness.

What did the Reverend Charles C. Jones of Georgia NOT do?

urge an end to slavery