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14 Φεβ 2022 · 1. Slavery was inhumane and cruel, unjust and the punishment meted. out to the slaves was harsh for example the uses of the treadmill. 2. Slaves were not properly provided for, since food, clothing, housing.
It links to a PDF you can print and distribute. The PDF includes excerpts from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from which students can mine evidence to deploy against Fitzhugh. Selecting passages to serve as evidence and providing rationales for those choices offer an ...
It discusses early proslavery thought in the Americas, proslavery thought in the age of revolution, the role of proslavery thought in sectional conflict and postbellum sectional reconciliation, and the problem of proslavery thought in the modern world and in twentieth-century historiography.
thorough study of Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South. In a brilliant chapter in The Liberal Tradition in America Louis Hartz has placed the political theory of the southern defenders in perspective, and William R. Stanton's The Leopard's Spots revealingly analyzes the scientific arguments used to bolster slavery.
autobiographers infused their narratives with abolitionist rhetoric at a time in which stories Americans told about themselves became increasingly important in the national political crisis over slavery extension and fugitive slaves.
While proslavery debates presented the most racist and virulent arguments to which the narratives had to reply, abolitionist discourse and literature offered representations of slaves and black people, combined with antislavery opinions and views, which became interwoven in the fabric of the slave narratives.
Cartwright's pro-slavery argument started with an attack upon abolitionists. While visiting Europe in 1837, he had be-come convinced that London Abolitionists, through books and other means, were plotting to "stir up the Christians of the Northern states" against the South.9 In a lengthy article published in the Southern Quarterly Review in ...
