Anti Abolitionists Analysis
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During the 1800s slavery became a major issue in American life and an integral part of its society. Throughout it many different views about it emerged mainly into two different sides, anti-abolitionist and pro-abolitionist. Coincidentally, the two sides were mostly separated geographically between South and North in which the South supported slavery and the North abolished it. The Northern states, known as the Union, abolished slavery for its cruelty and damage to human natural rights, while the Southern states known as the Confederacy, supported it for its benefits to wealth and greed. Substantially both sides used the same facts about religion, economy and society to support their causes, regarding that the North saw it as pernicious to the very structure that composes our society, while the South saw it as an institution set by God and a natural state of mankind. In the eyes of northern citizens, slavery was an institution that had its roots in cruelty and disregard towards mankind. However many Anti-Abolitionist arguments against the statement and implied that slavery was not at all different from the labor force of factories, and if not, it was better. As Document A says, “In all respects the comforts of our slave are great superior to those of the English operatives, (.....) crowded …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Explains that slavery became a major issue in american life and an integral part of its society during the 1800s. both sides used the same facts about religion, economy and society to support their causes.
- Argues that slavery was an institution that had its roots in cruelty and disregard towards mankind. anti-abolitionist arguments against the statement and implied slavery wasn't different from the labor force of factories.
- Explains that the abolitionists demanded slavery as an evil that must be stopped from spreading and eventually abolished in every part of society, be it economic or social.
- Explains that anti-abolitionists stated that slavery was an institution set by god, a state of humanity that is natural to the whole cycle of life.
Anti-abolitionist stated that everyone must accept its place in society, to conform to where they have been born for it's a natural process; notably Document C shows a black woman carrying a baby in the hope of expressing the fact of blacks being under whites as a natural process of
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- Explains that altman, susan, "abolitionist movement." encyclopedia of african-american heritage, second edition.
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In this essay, the author
- Opines that the north was hypocritical when it came to slavery. while the majority reaped the profits of slavery, the minority loudly declared the source of its fruits an abomination.
- Explains that new england slave merchants brought slaves to the united states when it was a collection of ragtag colonies, and they continued to do so until the civil war.
- Explains that the north and the south maintained a symbiotic relationship through the reception of slave-grown goods.
- Opines that the northerners were just as racist as the southerners, since they were not abolitionists. the scientific communities of the north were hellbent on finding or making up data that proved the inferiority of african americans.
- Concludes that the north and the south are two parts of the same coin.
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- Explains that the antislavery movement before the 1830s was the spark of fire that led to the abolitionist acts after the 19th century.
- Explains that the antislavery movement in the early nineteenth century was a failure because it did not have enough economic support to help with the thousands of slaves reproducing in america.
- Explains that the american plantations had not yet won the fight to keep slaves. the abolitionist movement started with william lloyd garrison, david walker, sojourner truth, and frederick douglass, who fought for the freedom of african americans.
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- Opines that the fundamental difference between black and white abolitionists was that they were more stable than blacks.
- Describes joe schor's book, henry highland garnet: a voice of black radicalism in the nineteen century.
- Explains that black and white abolitionists shared common assumptions about the evil of slavery, the virtue of moral reform, and the certainty of human progress.
- Analyzes how black abolitionists viewed prejudice as the "most formidable obstacle to racial progress" and feared that whites did not bring the same urgency to the problem of racism in the north.
- Cites gary b. nash's forging freedom: the formation of philadelphia’s black community, 1720-1840, and julie winch, the black elite: activism, accommodation and the struggle for autonomy.
- Compares c. peter riply's el.: african american voices on race, slavery, and emnancipation with carter g. woodson: negro orators ansd their orations.
- Compares the work of lawrence j. friedman and russell b. nye on the civil liberties and slavery controversy.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that the abolitionist movement paved the way in eradicating slavery by pursuing moral and political avenues and providing the foundation for the underground railroad.
- Explains that the abolitionist movement catalyzed the end of slavery with the help of moral and political tactics.
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- Explains that the abolitionist movement allowed for a coalition between races, with the means to successfully create the underground railroad.
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- States that slavery was recognized in the thirteen colonies at the time of the declaration of independence in 1776. after the revolutionary war, abolitionist laws and emotion spread in northern states.
- Explains that many southern farmers and plantation owners needed slaves to run their farms or plantations. others felt black people were inferior to white people. pro-slavery forces moved from defending slavery as a necessary evil
- Describes how samuel cartwright contributed ideas and literature to those southerners who defended slavery. he described a condition he called "drapetomania".
- Analyzes how southerners depended on slaves to harvest their crops, while northerners felt slavery was unconstitutional, unethical, and cruel.
- Explains that the abolitionist movement was to abolish slavery. david walker wrote an appeal in 1829, which targeted free black northerners and southern slaves.
- Analyzes how frederick douglass argues that the fourth of july is not an independence day he can enjoy, but blacks do not have freedom or liberty.
- Analyzes how frederick douglass' speech called for a change. the fire started when abraham lincoln won the 1860 election, and the south finally broke away to form the confederacy.
- Analyzes how frederick douglass' quote motivated african americans to enlist in the union army and take an initiative in their future. the civil war ended slavery before the thirteenth amendment.
- Opines that if the civil war was going to have a fight, it was best that the union won.
- Explains that the south wanted and needed slaves. they tried to use the bible to justify their actions. frederick douglass and david walker spoke out on slavery.
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In this essay, the author
- Narrates how douglass learned the word "abolitionist" in "learning to read and write." he would always hear something about them, which became an interesting word for him.
- Explains how douglass learned the meaning of abolition by using clues, time, and the context it is used in. his intelligence earned him knowledge and education.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that slavery was a dominant part of the political and social arenas of 1800’s america, but it was not homogenous as it divided america into two distinct groups.
- Explains that senator steward, an anti-slavery supporter, viewed all of man as equals. this equality came from the "higher law" that is the bible.
- Explains that abolitionists understood that each man represented one of god's creations and that men were part of his plan. if slavery was allowed to exist, then man was interrupting god’s desire and plan for his creation.
- Opines that there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates over authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
- Explains that according to abolitionists, god endowed man with equality and common heritage. this equality granted by god overrides the law established by the united states government.
- Explains that steward and all abolitionists were dismayed that supposedly christian and good nation that hinges its existence on the claim that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, would allow some to live in bondage and squalor that is slavery.
- Explains that the abolitionists believed that without every citizen being treated as god's natural equals then unnatural order and chaos would occur.
- Argues that the south, contradictorily to the north, believed the future of the nation depended on slavery. pro-slavery southerners balked at the northerners claim that slavery was a sin.
- Explains thomas dew's argument that holding slaves was not a sin as long as it was done with generosity and without malicious intent. pro-slavery supporters argued that modern slavery was exponentially more cruel than ancient slavery.
- Explains that southerners believed they were upholding a long-held tradition of master and slave as put forth by god. since god had allowed his followers to keep and hold slaves for all of biblical history, modern history could not have been any different.
- Explains that slavery used religion to keep african americans subordinate. pro-slavery advocates argued that christianity appeals to slaves because it fosters hope to both the slave and the master.
- Explains that both supporters of slavery and those who wished to abolish slavery turned to god as their justification. the christian equality of the north won over the hard-nosed old testament south.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains the differences between the anti-slavery and the abolitionist movements in america during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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