The antebellum South is referred to as the Old South; south of the Cotton Kingdom and plantation slavery. The Old South did not last long but received the term "Old" 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 the Negro and to determine their status, or "place ". The white supremacist view of life, along with the injustices of exploitation, can be traced back to the old argument for slavery, 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, maintaining order, and physical and medical care of slaves. Servants were a prime example of this type of interracial contact. There were also bonds of intimacy and affection between the races due to domestic servants living in the same house, attending the same church, and participating in family conversation (Woodward, 12). Domestic servants were the only slaves to receive this type of association, which overall was very small. The laborers, however, received the harsher side of slavery. Slavery in the Old South was a “system” in which segregation was only a problem or inconvenience. There were also a few hundred thousand Negroes 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). The urban life of a Negro included many types of discrimination, and in some cities he was even completely excluded. Although blacks were tolerated in hospitals, prisons, and public buildings, they were still regularly separated. The urban life of African Americans d...... middle of paper...... was a series of Supreme Court rulings that sanctioned separation. During 1898 in the case of Pressy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" rights were deemed constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. These rights gave Southern states the leniency to physically separate different races in schools and public places (Woodward, 71). Proscription, segregation, and disenfranchisement were completed due to William v. Mississippi in 1898. This Mississippi plan approved by the U.S. Supreme Court deprived Negroes of the right to vote (Woodward, 71). The “Jim Crow” system was a historical period in which segregation laws emerged. Woodward suggests that the Jim Crow system was not the result of slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, or redemption. The chaotic and disorganization of white Southerners during the nineteenth century, however, changed the history of the South by developing the Jim Crow system..