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Chapter 11: Cotton Slavery and the Old South


Main Themes

Main Themes

1. How economic power shifted from the "upper" to the "lower" South, and the impact this had on southern social and political development.

2. How society in the South developed both in myth and in reality.

3. The nature of the South's "peculiar institution," and the effect it had on the southern way of life.


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