This was not the case in all households of the Antebellum South.There were some slave masters that willed their slaves to freed after their death. They lived in the same home, shared in family life, often attended the same church, and talked conversation with each other.” “When all the best of the Negroes were domestic servants in the best white families, there were bonds of intimacy, affection, and sometime blood relationship between the races. Woodward goes on to explain a quote from W.E.B. If I use the term “Negro” is is not in a offensive way it a was to describe the people of this era of history. The first edition of this book was written in 1955 and this term was widely used in the academic world during this time. These people ran huge cotton and agricultural enterprises that funded the beginnings of the Civil War.Īs a African American of the twenty-first century, I find the use of the term “Negro” rather offensive. They are most frequently known as the planter class. For these were the people that supported the mercantile elites of the Old South. From the time of independence up until the 1860s, race was a very prevalent subject that concerned the live of millions of West African and Caribbean slaves. Woodward begins his discourse on the Old South before the Civil War.
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