Lydia Maria Child's Propositions Defining Slavery and Emancipation

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There has been many debates about the righteousness of slavery in the United States. There were many supporters of slavery as well as people who opposed slavery. Slavery has concentrated on African slaves In the United States. Law and public opinion regarding slavery differed from state to state and from person to person. Slavery has brought about a lot of controversy and stirred emotions even in today's society which has left a big impact on the people. In the documents, Ads for Runaway Servants and Slaves (1733-72), Lydia Maria Child's Propositions Defining Slavery and Emancipation (1833) and Lydia Maria Child's Prejudices against people of color (1836), describes the life of slaves along with the different views of the North and the South. Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property and are forced to work, even in conditions where it can become unbearable and where the government has a say in the slaves lives and although slavery has been abolished, the results from slavery can never be erased. In the south, slavery was a oppression of the government. There were "southern defenders of slavery taunted abolitionists by arguing that wage workers in the North and England were equally slaves" and that "women were equally" treated unjustly, which means slavery was a way for the government to take advantage of their power (Balkin and Levison 1463). Slaves were constantly trying to find opportunities to escape. In Ads for Runaway Servants and Slaves (1733-72), many servants and slaves were runaways but many were caught or chose to returned to their masters because they had nowhere else to go. Many slave owners were uncertain as to why their slaves would run away because "he has been always too kindly used, if ... ... middle of paper ... ...ective Process. JSTOR. VOL. 15. Web. 18 Apr. 2014. Kopytoff, Igor. Slavery. JSTOR. 1982. Vol. 11. Annual Reviews. 20 Apr. 2014. Roediger, David and Blatt, Martin H. The Meaning of Slavery in the North. JStor. 1998. Vol. 18 University of Pennsylvania Press. 22 Apr. 2014. Shi, David E. and Holly A. Mayer. For the Record A Documentary History of America. New York and London. 2013. Print. Tindall, George Brown and Shi, David Emory. America: A Narrative History. 9th Edition. Vol. 1. W.W. Norton & Company Ltd., Castle House. 20 Apr. 2014. Print. White, Shane. Slavery in the North. JSTOR. 2003. Vol. 3 No.7. Organization of American Historians. 20 Apr. 2014. Print. White, Shane and White, Graham. Slave Clothing and African-American Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. JStor. 1995. Oxford University Press. 25 Apr. 2014.

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