Chapter 11 Flashcards - Quizlet Urban slaveholders often felt social pressure to provide higher standards of treatment to those they enslaved Enslaved people in cities typically had greater autonomy Which of the following was true of the so-called honor culture in the pre-Civil War South? It was a code among white men It stressed the importance of personal reputation
Was the South Poor Before the War? – Abbeville Institute The very face of extreme poverty in the South after the Civil War among large numbers of both its black and white citizens has done much to bolster the belief that the antebellum South was poor, as has the relative raking of the Southern states at the bottom of almost every economic index since that great conflict
Citizenship in the Reconstruction South | Gilder Lehrman Institute of . . . Black southerners, once considered least capable of acting as good citizens before the Civil War, transformed the idea and practice of citizenship during Reconstruction Before the Civil War, most white people thought that black people, because of their supposed racial inferiority or because of the degradation of slavery, could not govern
Pre-Civil War African-American Slavery - Library of Congress African Americans had been enslaved in what became the United States since early in the 17th century Even so, by the time of the American Revolution and eventual adoption of the new Constitution in 1787, slavery was actually a dying institution
Abolition, the Extension of Slavery, and the Position of Free Blacks: A . . . Using the "split labor market" theory of ethnic and racial antago-nism, this paper analyzes race relations in the pre-Civil War United States Both slaves and free blacks are found to have been lower-priced sources of labor than whites, to whom they therefore posed a threat of displacement
Slave Life in the South pre-Civil War - Smithsonian Learning Lab Before the Civil War, slavery was very common in the South They were not treated as human beings, but as property and that led to exploitation and oppression of the slaves Unfortunately, slaves were an integral part of the growth of America which is why they were so common
The Pre-Civil Rights South - CliffsNotes The post-World War II years saw a continuation of the black struggle for equal rights, which held little hope According to a report from the Southern Regional Council, in 1947, only 12 percent (around 600,000) of African Americans living in the South were eligible to register to vote
American Segregation Started Long Before the Civil War By 1863, the Lincoln administration had largely abandoned the notion that black people would agree to live somewhere else after emancipation But white Americans had been assured by politicians for half a century that slavery would end in racial separation rather than coexistence