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Assignment:

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Given that most northern states had abolished slavery by the 1830s, how is it useful to think of slavery as a national-rather than regional-economic and political system?

2. Although some poor southern whites resented the dominance of the "slavocracy," most supported the institution and accepted the power of the planter class. Why did the "plain folk" continue to support slavery?

3. How did the planters' paternalism serve to justify the system of slavery? How did it hide the reality of life for slaves?

4. Identify the basic elements of the proslavery defense and those points aimed especially at non-southern audiences.

5. In what sense did southern slaveholders consider themselves forward-looking?

6. Compare slaves in the Old South with those elsewhere in the world, focusing on health, diet, and opportunities for freedom.

7. Describe the difference between gang labor and task labor for slaves, and explain how slaves' tasks varied by region across the Old South.

8. How did enslaved people create community and a culture that allowed them to survive in an oppressive society?

9. Identify the different types of resistance to slavery. Which ones were the most common, the most effective, and the most demonstrative?