Slave Language of Truth Abolitionists supported slave narratives for obvious reasons, but how can we know the formerly enslaved were writing the truth? How did language of slave narratives change that perception? And, how do we know what happened to people, really did happen? Check the list summarized from an article by Charles Nichols for […]
What remarks do the abolitionists make about the conditions under which the slaves worked and lived?
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/ […]