The antebellum South is called the Old South; south of the Cotton Kingdom and plantation slavery. The Old South did not last long but was given the term "Old" in order to distinguish the Old South from the New South. Slavery in the Old South was practiced by the white man to ensure the subordination of blacks and determine their status, or “place.” The white supremacist view of life, as well as the injustices of exploitation, dates back to the old pro-slavery argument developed by the Anglo-Saxons (Woodward, 11). Slavery in the Old South required daily interracial contact on both sides of the races, such as supervision, policing, and physical and medical care of slaves. Servants were a prime example of this type of interracial contact. Bonds of intimacy and affection were also present between the races due to the fact that servants lived in the same house, attended the same church, and shared family conversations (Woodward, 12). Servants were the only slaves to benefit from this type of association, which was overall in a very small proportion. Farm workers, however, received the harsher side of slavery. Slavery in the Old South was a “system” in which segregation posed only problems or inconveniences. There were also a few hundred thousand blacks in the slave states who were free or nearly free; not established by slavery. These blacks received treatment relatively close to slavery, foreshadowing segregation (Woodward, 13). Urban life for a black person included several types of discrimination and was even completely excluded by some cities. Although blacks were tolerated in hospitals, prisons and public buildings, they were nevertheless regularly segregated. City life for African Americans in middle of paper ...... was a series of Supreme Court rulings that sanctioned separation. In 1898, in the case of Pressy v. Ferguson, "separate but equal" rights were considered constitutional by the United States Supreme Court. These rights gave Southern states the latitude to physically separate different races in schools and public places (Woodward, 71). Proscription, segregation, and disenfranchisement were completed through William v. Mississippi in 1898. This Mississippi plan approved by the United States Supreme Court disenfranchised blacks (Woodward, 71). The “Jim Crow” system was a time in history where segregation laws emerged. Woodward suggests that the Jim Crow system was not the result of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, or redemption. The chaos and disorganization of white Southerners during the 19th century, however, transformed Southern history by developing the Jim Crow system...