Three+Countries+in+One

SOUTH
 * they lived in mansions
 * plantations were spread out, built to show their wealth
 * small farmers tended to live hand-to-mouth
 * plantation owners were wealthy
 * crops had tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton
 * there were small communities of free slaves in the south
 * to handle oppression they used spirituals
 * spirituals were also used to send coded messages to other slaves
 * Black marriages were not recognized by law
 * they hopped over brooms to declare their mariage
 * in 1793 Eli Whitney created the cotton gin to separate the seeds from the cotton
 * This sealed the fates of African-Americans in the South, who might have been eventually freed as slavery became less economically feasible

NORTH

WEST