Dbq Slavery In The 19th Century

Slavery was a big part of life in the mid-19th century, there were senators, authors, presidential candidates, etc., who argued about whether slavery should continue or stop. The American people believed that it was inhumane to treat people in such a manner. In this writing assignment, you will recognize these people known as John Calhoun, and George Fitzhugh who were all for slavery. Theodore Weld, James Birney, The Declaration of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Henry Thoreau, William Garrison, and David Walker. All were against slavery, he said. How did it affect the U.S. in the 19th century? In Document A, Senator John Calhoun stated that slavery is instead of an evil, a good- positive good. I believe he is saying that without slave labor,
Therefore, free laborers are not stable living wise, they are not forced to work and unable to supply the way they want to live. There will not be an enjoyable comfort of living if there is no slave laboring. The argument about slave labor does not have merit, because they both wanted slaves to continue to go on for their benefit to make them wealthy or country and every man and woman should be free from the day they were born, believing we should be free to choose our life, so no they do not deserve a reward or praise for this argument. Some people rejected slaves such as Theodore Weld, characterized as militant because Weld saw with his eyes how slaves were treated as if they were nothing and it hurt him to see that he spoke with force that something needed to be done and that is not how you treat a human. James Birney, who is a Liberty Party presidential candidate, is characterized as moderate, he believed in religious facts, that it was against his religion, and that slavery was not right no matter the
He believes that there is no law in injustice. William Garrison was characterized as radical because he wanted a change in slavery and told everybody who listened that he was not going to stop until slavery went away. David Walker is characterized as reasonable because he is telling everybody, that if there is no change in slavery, you might as well say goodbye to the world because every man is judged by God. Their actions and words were necessary because if they had not spoken about how slavery is affecting the world, American slavery would have been a lot worse. Document F, in Henry Thoreau's statement, I agree because if a law is an unjust, it shouldn’t be a law, when it means to hurt another human being or treat them as they are not supposed to be in the world, a law should be justified by the agreement upon all people, not just whoever wants to create laws. The radical abolitionists should be praised for ending slavery because if they did not speak up about how it has affected America, we as American people would have so much more conflict with the Americans, there would be more rebellion, and a lot of people in the world would have