Antebellum American South

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Antebellum_American_South

GPTKB entity

Statements (66)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_region
gptkbp:characterizedBy	slavery racial hierarchy cotton production plantation economy agrarian society
gptkbp:conflict	gptkb:Abolitionist_movement Union Northern states
gptkbp:culture	distinct dialects Southern cuisine Southern hospitality evangelical Protestantism honor culture dueling tradition
gptkbp:economy	agriculture slave labor
gptkbp:endDate	gptkb:American_Civil_War
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Antebellum American South
gptkbp:legacy	gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement gptkb:Jim_Crow_laws Lost Cause ideology
gptkbp:locatedIn	gptkb:Southern_United_States
gptkbp:mainCrops	gptkb:rice gptkb:tobacco cotton sugarcane
gptkbp:notableCity	gptkb:New_Orleans gptkb:Richmond gptkb:Natchez gptkb:Charleston gptkb:Savannah Mobile
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Compromise_of_1850 gptkb:Missouri_Compromise gptkb:Dred_Scott_decision gptkb:Fugitive_Slave_Act gptkb:Nat_Turner's_Rebellion gptkb:Secession_of_Southern_states
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Alabama gptkb:Arkansas gptkb:Florida gptkb:Georgia gptkb:Louisiana gptkb:Mississippi gptkb:North_Carolina gptkb:South_Carolina gptkb:Tennessee gptkb:Texas gptkb:Virginia
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Frederick_Douglass gptkb:Harriet_Tubman gptkb:Jefferson_Davis gptkb:John_C._Calhoun gptkb:Robert_E._Lee gptkb:Sojourner_Truth gptkb:Denmark_Vesey gptkb:Nat_Turner
gptkbp:period	pre-Civil War era late 18th century to 1861
gptkbp:socialStructure	enslaved African Americans free people of color poor whites planter elite
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:The_Difficulty_of_Crossing_a_Field
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6