Write a 1-3 paragraph in which you use at least three of the primary sources to state what your opinion is and why after considering the following questions:
Which primary sources offer the most accurate description of slavery?
Which primary sources affected your thinking on the topic of slavery the most and why?
Did any of the primary sources present an apologists defense of slavery and how plausible was the argument?
Why does Nat Turner say he led a revolt against slavery?
What was the actual condition of slaves in the United States prior to the Civil War?
Primary Source Reading:
Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=279
Testimony of Sarah M. Grimké on Slavery – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=283
American Slavery As It Is – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=284
Testimony of Angelina Grimké on Slavery – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=285
American Slavery as It Is – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=286
To Be a Slave – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=351
Nat Turner Explains Why He Led His Insurrection – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=505
How He Was Punished After Trying to Run Away – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=501
His Experiences as a Slave Child – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=487
The Circumstances that Prompt Masters to Whip Slaves – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=498
The Implements Used to Punish Slaves – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=500
The Punishments He Received – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=502
Children’s Lives Under Slavery – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=486
Margaret Garner Kills One of Her Children Rather than Permit Her to be Returned to Slavery – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=510
A Slave Auction – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=481
Cotton Is King: Pro-Slavery Arguments – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=275
Pro-Slavery Arguments – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=276
Pro-Slavery Arguments: The Biblical Argument – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=280
Pro-Slavery Arguments: Samuel A. Cartwright, – http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=278
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