Lecture 9: African Americans and Slavery in the South, 1780-1860

1. Contraction and Expansion of Slavery after the Revolution
   1. Abolition in the North during and after the war
   2. Expansion of Southern slavery even with the end of the slave trade, 1808
      
      

2. Changes in Slavery and Circumstances of African Americans in the South, 1790-1860
   1. Shift of crop mix produced on plantations
   2. Geographical shift to south and west of center of gravity of slave system
   3. Changing place of border states in slavery
      
      

3. African American Life in the Slave South
   1. Structural issues: Who lives where?
   2. Different environments
      1. Large plantations
      2. Urban slavery
      3. Free blacks in the south
   3. White Domination and black resistance
      
      

4. Frederick Douglass and Slavery

Lecture 10: Early American Nativism

1. Definition and Classification

2. Alien, Naturalization Acts, 1790s

3. 1830-1860 Period
   1. Issues
      1. Religion
      2. Politics
      3. Economics
   2. Outbreaks
      1. Ursuline Convent, 1834
      2. Philadelphia Riots, 1844
      3. Know-Nothing Movement, 1850s