Slavery Attacked and Defended

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Slavery Attacked and Defended
James Henley Thornwell, Frederick Douglass, Lydia
Maria Child
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Anti-Slavery/Abolitionism

• Enlightenment and American Revolution
• American Colonization Society
• 2d Great Awakening
• Immediatism
• David Walkers Appeal
• William Lloyd Garrison, Liberator
• American Anti Slavery Society
• American and Foreign Anti Slavery Society
• Moral Suasion to Direct Action

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See your Declaration Americans! ! ! Do you
understand your won language? Hear your
languages, proclaimed to the world, July 4th,
1776 -- "We hold these truths to be self evident
-- that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL! ! that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness! !"
Compare your own language above, extracted from
your Declaration of Independence, with your
cruelties and murders inflicted by your cruel and
unmerciful fathers and yourselves on our fathers
and on us -- men who have never given your
fathers or you the least provocation! ! ! ! ! !
David Walker, Appeal, In Four Articles
Together With A Preamble To The Coloured Citizens
Of The World, But In Particular, And Very
Expressly, To Those Of The United States Of
America,
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I am aware that many object to the severity of my
language but is there not cause for severity? I
will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising
as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to
think, or to speak, or write, with moderation.
No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to
give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately
rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher
tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe
from the fire into which it has fallen -- but
urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the
present. I am in earnest -- I will not
equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not
retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.
The apathy of the people is enough to make every
statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the
resurrection of the dead.W. L. Garrison, The
Liberator, Jan. 1, 1831
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Free Soil/Free Labor

• Liberty Partybecame Free Soil Party by 1848
• There are many who main impulse is to secure the
  new territories for free white labor. N. Y.
  Tribune
• Slavery threatened free white labor, diminished
  the dignity of labor.
• We are opposed to the extension of slavery
  because . . . it diminishes the productive power
  of the population. It is an obstacle to compact
  settlements, and to every general system of
  public instruction. . . . If the free labor . .
  . goes into the territories the slave labor of
  the southern states will not, and in a few years
  the country will teem with an active and
  energetic population. Free Soil Paper

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Slavery Defended

• Ancient Example
• Biblical Precept
• Political Economy

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Political Economy

• Thomas Roderick Dew, An Essay in Favor of Slavery
  (1832)
• George Fitzhugh, Sociology of the South, or the
  Failure of Free Society (1854), Cannibals All, or
  Slaves without Masters (1857)
• Henry Hughes, A Treatise on Sociology
  Theoretical and Practical (1854)

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Biblical

• Thornton W. Stringfellow, Scriptural and
  Statistical Views in Favor of Slavery (1856)
• 1st. The sanction of the Almighty in the
  Patriarchal age.
• 2d. That it was incorporated into the only
  National Constitution which ever emanated from
  God.
• 3d. That its legality was recognized and its
  relative duties regulated, by Jesus Christ in his
  kingdom and
• 4th. That it is full of mercy.

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Ephesians and the Relative Duties

• 522 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own
  husbands, as unto the Lord.
• 61 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for
  this is right.
• 65 Servants, be obedient to them that are
  your masters according to the flesh, with fear
  and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as
  unto Christ.

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E. N. Elliott, Cotton is King (1860)
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Religious Debates/Schisms over Slavery

• Francis Wayland-Richard Fuller, 1845
• Old School-New School Schism (1837)
• Triennial Convention Schism (1844) SBC formed
  1845
• Methodist General Conference Schism (1844) MEC,S
  founded in 1844.

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