World developments created and recreated periods of ideological crisis for the Old South. Crises of confidence in the taken-for-granted productions and reproductions of Southern life exacerbated the ideological contradictions between such concepts as freedom and slavery, setting in motion the dissolution of the dominant discourse that supported the natural order of Southern life. This crisis which detained 90 percent of blacks in bondage; then there was the racialist structure of the society, a moral and social order that privileged whites and stereotyped blacks as either subservient or subversive; and finally, there was the resurgence of the long-held Anglo-American desire for African colonization (McInerney 1994). Alongside their efforts to find their own voice and oppose colonization, free blacks sought to convert white abolitionists from gradualism to a more radical abolitionist program, the immediate end of slavery. With the 1820s social climate favoring reform, blacks had some ... more
abolitionists
I believe they were called 'Abolitionists'.
conflict between slave owners and abolitionists
The slave codes changed in 1865 when the 13th amendment was ratified. Slave codes were laws that restricted African Americans behaviors due to the fear of rebellion.
The Slave Codes were passed to keep the growing slave population under control.
slave codes.
growing fear of active slave resistance.
The passage of strict slave codes
Abolitionists
In response to growing northern opposition to slavery, slave states tightened their slave codes and prohibited any type of emancipation whether voluntary or otherwise. Southern abolitionists found their voice taken away from them, and the southern slaveholder grew increasingly paranoid.
Slave trade and slaves in general.
A rising fear of active slave resistance movements
Slave Codes.
They were passed to replace "slave codes" and to ensure a landless, dependent black labor force in response to the Thirteenth Amendment.
abolitionists
abolitionists
A rising fear of slave revolts