 | Chapter Objectives
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When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to:
- Describe the major regions of the South and explain the importance and character of agriculture in the region.
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- Describe the distribution of slavery in the South.
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- Describe the class structure of white southerners and its relationship to slavery.
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- Describe the institution of slavery and how it functioned as a labor system and a system for regulating relations between the races.
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- Describe slave culture and how it helped slaves bear up under the pressures of slavery.
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- Discuss the ways slaves resisted the institution of bondage.
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- Describe the various ways southern whites defended slavery.
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