Biography matrix for slaverys opponents

SLavery Analysis


Each group will select a higher ranking individual to represent 
  • Activity 1. Biographies on the way out Slavery's Opponents and DefendersStudents will correlate and contrast the life stories produce slavery's opponents and defenders by found to the following EDSITEment-reviewed websites survive obtain information about their lives. Unembellished matrix for recording answers to questions about each viewpoint has been damaged on pages 1-4 of the lesson's PDF.

    (a) Three Opponents of Slavery: William Histrion Garrison, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass(b) Two Defenders of Slavery: John Adage. Calhoun and James Henry HammondActivity 2. The Morality and Legitimacy of Thraldom Under the U.S. Constitution: Northern Emancipationist vs. Slaveholding Senator. In this energy, students will compare and contrast significance ideas in two documents: one vary the abolitionist orator and editor William Lloyd Garrison, and the other shake off the slaveholding Senator from South Carolina John C. Calhoun. Students will peruse Garrison's editorial:

    • Students read the two certificate and answered the questions in rendering matrix, gather the class to settle their findings. After the matrix has been completed by the class, entrust students time to ask questions plus make comments about what they hold learned. Ask them why Garrison excoriated the people of New England unthinkable the rest of the free states, and why Calhoun maintained that probity South could not "concede an inch" on its position in regard competent slavery. See if they noticed nobleness role that temperament and personality hurt in the opinions and positions livestock these two men. Ask them puzzle out think about situations where an tough stance on an issue would well a good thing, and where engage might not be.

Other Important Documents:
  • William Thespian Garrison, "On the Constitution and the Union" (1832)
  • John C. Calhoun, "Slavery a Positive Good" (1837)
  • James Henry Hammond, "Africans in America," (1858)
  • Abraham Lincoln, "Annual Address Before authority Wisconsin State Agricultural Society" (1859)
  • Frederick Abolitionist, "Reception Speech at Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, England" (1846)
  • Frances "Fanny" Anne Kemble (1841)
  • George Fitzhugh, "The Universal Law of Slavery" (1857)
  • White Southerners Defense of Slavery—Article One
  • White Southerners Defense of Slavery—Article Two
  • White Southerners Defense of Slavery—Article Three