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To What Extent Were Southern Slaveholders Justified in Comparing Slavery in Favorable Terms to Northern Factory?

Compared to slavery, working in a factory seemed much greater and simpler than working for someone without getting paid. When you think about it, is it actually better than slavery? Families would force their own children to work in factories to make money to support their own family. In 1819, people, starting at the age of 9, had to start working in factories (Doc 15). A few years later in 1844, the minimum age requirement decreased to the age of 8. There is no age requirement for being a slave. Some slaves are far too young to know what slavery is, while others can be seniors. Slaves would have to work for their master daily …show more content…

Their beliefs show how slaves should be joyful about how their owners show their concern about them. Fitzhugh quotes, “...yet have all the comforts and necessities of life provided for them (Doc 1).” This quote implies how Fitzhugh explains how slaves should be cheerful about their life as a slave. He explained that slaves have a balance of their time and that they also have their holidays off. He also mentions, “White Slave Trade [Northern free labor] is more exacting and fraudulent (in fact, though not in intention) than Black Slavery; (Doc 2)...” This explains how Fitzhugh views White Slave Trade and Black Slave Trade; he believes Black Slave Trade is more superior than north slave trade. Overall, Fitzhugh and Grayson both have an agreement upon north and south …show more content…

The slaves were observed by customers and were tested to see what they can do for their new master. This also hints to how some slaves get abused by the owner and will not get sold. The scars depict how the slave will act. Another quote states how slaves got separated by their families. It illustrated how slaves got marketed and how many families would get split

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Frederick Douglass’s Position On Slavery Douglass supports his position that slavery is terrible for slaves because they get mistreated getting whipped, left with scars. ¨Mr.plummer was a miserable….and a savage monster. He always went armed with cowskin and a heavy cudgel . I have known him to cut and slash a woman's head so horribly that even master would be enraged at his cruelty.¨As douglass was saying his first master was ¨captain anthony¨was a very cruel man.

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Nat Turner and George Fitzhugh clearly wouldn't agree on much.   • What types of sources and information does each man rely on to justify his attitude about slavery? It appears that Nat Turner uses the Bible and visions from the holy spirt he gets to justify his actions and attitude. George Fitzhugh uses statistics from France, England, and American about crime rates and slavery to justify his attitude towards slavery.

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How Frederick Douglass Demystifies Slavery The Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, written by Frederick Douglass, demonstrates the severe reality of slavery as it had never been shown before. Douglass demystifies slavery by rebuking its romantic image, refuting the idea of black intellectual inferiority, and showing that the system promotes disloyalty among the slaves. Douglass rebukes the romantic image of slavery by displaying brutal realities that hadn’t yet been told. He shows the prevalent beatings that “[cause] the blood to run.

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Calhoun views compromise as a bad thing. He sees it as a dividing factor rather than a uniting factor. He uses the specific example of the division of the military to show that compromise is bad and it will ultimately cause the defense to of the country to weaken. Examples of past failed compromises are the Missouri Compromise and Clay’s proposed compromise in 1821. 8.

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Douglass suggests how slaves often are transferred year in and year out, regardless of the place the slaves’ families are. Slave owners know that they get slaves with the right amount of value and the age of the slaves only to the extent that they can be valuable and have productive labor; they frequently treat slaves like livestock, mere animals, barring reason. Douglass presents this cure of people as objects or animals as cruel and absurd. Douglass’s life as a slave describes the slaves on Colonel Lloyd's massive plantation as living in concern of beatings and other varieties of bodily abuse. (Douglass).

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The enslavement of Africans and African Americans in Early America created a clear divide between the North and South. The North, primarily opponents of slavery, argued that slavery violated the basic principal of American democracy – respect for fundamental human rights. On the contrary, the South had an aristocratic understanding of democracy. Proponents of slavery also believed that the prosperity, technologies, and innovations that emerged from this institution was essential for American capitalism. Both opponents and proponents of slavery exercised principals of capitalism and democracy to justify their stance.

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Southern Slaves and Northern Laborers had many different experiences, even though they were both considered workers. Their compensation, working hours, working conditions, and consequences for breaking rules varied. In the end, the life of a Southern Slave was, mainly, harder than the life of a Northern Laborer. First off, Southern Slaves probably had better compensation than Northern Laborers. Although Northern Laborers were given wages by the factory owners for their work, they ultimately had to pay back the factory owners for their provisions.

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Even in the Free States of the north, slaves were not always protected from the southern ideals of slavery and white supremacy. Many slaves felt that if they escaped to the north, they would live in poverty and didn’t think it “worth while to exchange slavery for such a hard kind of freedom” (Line 16). Living in slavery is hard enough with the constant abuses and subordination. Whether or not to flee slavery, where at least they had food, for poverty and the inability to provide for one’s self or one’s family must have been a very difficult choice to make. As well as having to deal with poverty, slaves might have to face “a northern man with southern principles” (Lines 45-46).

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