Slavery and Abolition

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Slavery and Abolition

• What were the arguments FOR and AGAINST slavery
  in the United States?

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Ranking A score of 1 means the person is
completely for slavery and a score of 10 means
the person is completely against slavery. As a
group decide what number your person should be
assigned.
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Ben Franklin

• President of Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society
• Said people are made of one flesh
• However, never freed his own slaves

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James Calhoun

• Slavery is a state issue, 10th amendment
• it is impossible for whites/blacks to live
  together
• social and political equality between them is
  impossible

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Grimke Sisters

• Only SOUTHERN abolitionist leaders
• Freed the slaves given to them by their family
• Tried to persuade people that slavery was morally
  wrong

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James Henry Hammond

• Africans are better off because they get religion
  and education
• Slave owners are kind and treat slaves as their
  own children
• People are NOT created equal

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Frederick Douglass

• There is not a nation on the earth guilty of
  practices more shocking and bloody than are the
  people of the U.S.
• He was a runaway slave who was abused and sold
  many times in their lives
• Became self-educated as a slave
• Published the North Star- anti-slavery magazine

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William Lloyd Garrison

• Set fire to a copy of the constitution and said
  it was an agreement with hell
• Wrote The Liberator- anti-slavery magazine
• Event the Northerners considered him to be
  radical in his beliefs

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James Kirke Paulding

• Northerner who say African Americans as inferior
• Slavery was needed to protect the country from
  the Civil War
• Said the bible, constitution and law supported
  the law

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George Fitzhugh

• Thought all poor should be enslaved, not just
  black people
• Said slaves were better taken care of than
  workers in northern factories
• Thought abolishing slave trade in 1808 was a
  mistake

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Hinton Helper

• Criticized slavery but said it bad for whites who
  did not own slaves
• Wanted Africans to live separately from whites
• His book was banned in the south

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Harriet Tubman

• Nickname was Moses for leading slaves to
  freedom on the Underground Railroad
• Runaway slave who returned to the south to help
  others escape
• Helped more the 300 slaves to freedom, even
  though the southern states had a huge reward for
  her capture