The South
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Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811- 1896
Across the north, readers became acutely aware of the horrors of slavery on a far more personal level than ever before. In the south the book was met with outrage and branded an irresponsible book of distortions and overstatements. In such an explosive environment, her story greatly furthered the Abolitionist cause north of the Mason-Dixon Line and promoted sheer indignation in plantation America.
Outbreak of the Civil War 1861-1865
The 13th amendment adopted in 1865 officially abolished slavery
Events that lead up to the Civil War
2. They tried to maintain and even balance between slave and free states.
3. Tension increased because of the Mexican War
4. 1857, the supreme courts ruling that all territories were open to slavery (dred scott case)
5. Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln is elected as president
6. Seven Southern states form the Confederate states of America.
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What was the reconstruction of the South?
The south had to rebuild:
- with drastically reduced white-male population
- without use of black slave labour on which the entire economy of the region had been built.
- and deal with large populations of newly-freed black people
----- black codes
countless black people were convicted and sentenced under unjust laws that criminalised them for existing as free, black citizens
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