Slavery and Abolition (Chapter 8, Section 2) Essential Questions: Can you force someone to follow your beliefs? Could the Civil War have been avoided?
Do Now You may use the glossary to define the following key terms: abolition emancipation antebellum gag rule popular sovereignty secession Then turn to page 248
Slavery and Abolition Create and complete a 2-column chart listing major antislavery and proslavery actions (3 bullets for each) Antislavery Actions Proslavery Actions
Comparing Strategies Formed anti-slavery societies Antislavery Actions Proslavery Actions Formed anti-slavery societies Publications, speeches and lectures Slave rebellions Tighter control over black people (free and slave) Use of religion and myth to defend slavery Gag rule to prevent debate in Congress
First Edition, December 3, 1847, Rochester, NY Frederick Douglass First Edition, December 3, 1847, Rochester, NY 1852 Speech
Also see handout and the short biography of Stowe on pg. 312 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (pg. 312) Who wrote it? What did the author hope to achieve by writing this book? How does the author try to achieve this? Miniseries Part 1 Miniseries Part 5 Also see handout and the short biography of Stowe on pg. 312
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (pg. 312) Effects: What effect did the novel have on the abolition movement? How did Southerners react to it? What effect did the book have on the conflict between the North and the South (did it make things better or worse)?
The South Responds Read the excerpt from George Fitzhugh’s Cannibals All! and answer questions 1 – 4.
Who are the white “slaves” to which Fitzhugh refers? Cannibals All! “We are all, North and South, engaged in the White Slave Trade, and he who succeeds best is esteemed most respectable. It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade, because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them....When the factory worker’s day is ended, he is free, but is overburdened with the cares of family and household, which makes his freedom an empty and delusive mockery…The Negro slave is free, too, when the labors of the day are over, and free in mind as well as body; for the master provides food, raiment (clothing), house, fuel and everything else necessary to the physical well-being of himself and his family.” Who are the white “slaves” to which Fitzhugh refers?
Who are the white “slaves” to which Fitzhugh refers? Cannibals All! “We are all, North and South, engaged in the White Slave Trade, and he who succeeds best is esteemed most respectable. It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade, because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them....When the factory worker’s day is ended, he is free, but is overburdened with the cares of family and household, which makes his freedom an empty and delusive mockery…The Negro slave is free, too, when the labors of the day are over, and free in mind as well as body; for the master provides food, raiment (clothing), house, fuel and everything else necessary to the physical well-being of himself and his family.” Who are the white “slaves” to which Fitzhugh refers?
Cannibals All! “We are all, North and South, engaged in the White Slave Trade, and he who succeeds best is esteemed most respectable. It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade, because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them....When the factory worker’s day is ended, he is free, but is overburdened with the cares of family and household, which makes his freedom an empty and delusive mockery…The Negro slave is free, too, when the labors of the day are over, and free in mind as well as body; for the master provides food, raiment (clothing), house, fuel and everything else necessary to the physical well-being of himself and his family.” According to Fitzhugh’s argument, whose life is easier, the white “slave” or the black slave?
Cannibals All! “We are all, North and South, engaged in the White Slave Trade, and he who succeeds best is esteemed most respectable. It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade, because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them....When the factory worker’s day is ended, he is free, but is overburdened with the cares of family and household, which makes his freedom an empty and delusive mockery…The Negro slave is free, too, when the labors of the day are over, and free in mind as well as body; for the master provides food, raiment (clothing), house, fuel and everything else necessary to the physical well-being of himself and his family.” According to Fitzhugh’s argument, whose life is easier, the white “slave” or the black slave?
Cannibals All! How does Fitzhugh justify this argument? “We are all, North and South, engaged in the White Slave Trade, and he who succeeds best is esteemed most respectable. It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade, because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them....When the factory worker’s day is ended, he is free, but is overburdened with the cares of family and household, which makes his freedom an empty and delusive mockery…The Negro slave is free, too, when the labors of the day are over, and free in mind as well as body; for the master provides food, raiment (clothing), house, fuel and everything else necessary to the physical well-being of himself and his family.”
Cannibals All! How does Fitzhugh justify this argument? “We are all, North and South, engaged in the White Slave Trade, and he who succeeds best is esteemed most respectable. It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade, because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them....When the factory worker’s day is ended, he is free, but is overburdened with the cares of family and household, which makes his freedom an empty and delusive mockery…The Negro slave is free, too, when the labors of the day are over, and free in mind as well as body; for the master provides food, raiment (clothing), house, fuel and everything else necessary to the physical well-being of himself and his family.”
Cannibals All! How does Fitzhugh justify this argument? “We are all, North and South, engaged in the White Slave Trade, and he who succeeds best is esteemed most respectable. It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade, because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them....When the factory worker’s day is ended, he is free, but is overburdened with the cares of family and household, which makes his freedom an empty and delusive mockery…The Negro slave is free, too, when the labors of the day are over, and free in mind as well as body; for the master provides food, raiment (clothing), house, fuel and everything else necessary to the physical well-being of himself and his family.”
Defending Slavery