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Focus Question:

In what ways was slavery the


most important fact of life in the
South during the early and middle
1800s?
Do Now:
Write 3 things you know about slavery.
Write 1 question you have about slavery.

Sectionalism:
The growing differences
and conflicts between
the North and the South
during the early and
middle 1800s.

By the mid-1800s, what were the main


differences between the North and South?
North

increasingly urban
economy based on
manufacturing (early
industrialization)
immigrant labor

South

mostly rural
economy based on
cotton production
(plantations)
slave labor

The Washington Family, Edward Savage (1796).

Slaves picking cotton, photographer unknown (c. 1860).

Slave Auction, Theodore Davis (1861). First appeared in Harpers


Weekly, a Northern magazine. Davis was a witness to the auction.

Running Away, Anonymous, The Suppressed


Book About Slavery! (1864).

Photograph of slave cabin and occupants,


Alabama, date unknown.

A Slave Father Sold Away From His Family, The Childs


Anti-Slavery Book, Carlton and Porter (1859).

Church Service At Plantation, South Carolina, London


Illustrated News (1863).

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