The South

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Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811- 1896

Was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and became best known for het novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, whih depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans.
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

Preservation of the Union vs Abolition of slavery

The 13th amendment adopted in 1865 officially abolished slavery

Events that lead up to the Civil War

1. Expansion westward: to limit or expand slavery?
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 tumultuous decade that followed the Civil War failed to protect black civil rights, and instead paved the way for more than a century of entrenched racial injustice”.


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

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countless black people were convicted and sentenced under unjust laws that criminalised them for existing as free, black citizens

Ku Klux Klan

On December 24, 1865, a group of former Confederate soldiers established what would become the first chapter of the Ku Klux Klan

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