Slavery Read the following pro- and anti-slavery documents Pro-Slavery: George Fitzhugh Advocates Slavery: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3141t.html Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3106t.html James Henry Hammond Advocates Slavery: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3439t.html Excerpts from Edmund Ruffin’s “The Political Economy of Slavery”: http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/filmmore/ps_ruffin.html Abolitionists: David Walker’s Appeal: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931t.html Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/ […]
Write a discussion on white southerners on “peculiar institution” whether or not they had slaves, whether they were rich or poor, and whether they lived on large plantations or small farms.
Prompt: The pro-slavery argument generally asserted that slavery was a “positive good”. John C. Calhoun further stated, “Never before has the black race of Central Africa attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually.” For the most part, white southerners defended the “peculiar institution” whether or not they […]