Critical Essay #2-Michelle Crespo
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Critical Essay #2
African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials,
Poems, Songs, and Stories, Section 3“I Will be Heard: Abolition and the Build Up to the Civil
War,”
#7,#21, #35
By: Michelle Crespo Though anti-slavery sentiment predated the republic, the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1833. For instance, many of Georgia's settlers waged a valiant but ultimately unsuccessful campaign to forbid slavery in the colony. Before independence, the majority of Black Christians, Quakers, and other religious groups maintained that slavery was against the teachings of Jesus. Furthermore, several revolutionaries realized it was incongruous to demand their freedom while harboring slaves. While the South served as the economic hub of slavery, Northerners, African Americans, and Native Americans all owned slaves. In addition, some Southerners were against slavery. Leaders of the anti-slavery movement were Black people. Around 1820, abolitionist literature started to appear. The abolitionist society reports broadsides, sermons, children's books, speeches, newspapers, periodicals, and memoirs of former slaves were all produced by the anti-slavery press in an ever-expanding volume up until the Civil War.
By reading the section of the reading I could tell that the historical context of this time was in the 1830s. I say this because it was where most slaves were freed yet they were fighting for others to be free or because they were on trial to be able to be freed. For example in section #7, Denmark Vesey who was known as an uppity, plan this plotting where in the town of Charlestown where the white would be out and all the blacks will be left alone, which they were planning to be able to help the slaves escape, sadly he was caught and sent to the trail, which he was guilty and hanged. As we can see here it was very in justice for them to hang him for a simple act of trying to free the slaves. The social context of this reading was many different people had the movement to help the slaves escape, resulting in the Civil War.
I believe that the intended audience at this time was Congress and the people who still didn't believe in having the Slaves free. First is the Congress where they would have all these movements to catch the congress's attention in the being aware of what is going on in the South and why it was wrong. One movement that I have learned about was the movement in 1837 where a woman named Maria Stewart gathered up 200 women, black and white to address and know what they could do to abolish slavery. She maintained that African Americans' psyches suffered greatly as a result of slavery, feeling helpless and without hope. She also discussed how women and African Americans are treated unfairly in American society, bringing attention to their hardships and fighting for their rights. Even tho Maria knew that it would be risky for her to
give out these speeches but she wanted to capture the audience's attention because she knew if they all came together they would be able to end a world of slavery.
A plethora of information about the extent of public support and opposition to abolition can be found in the Library of Congress. Ads on billboards promote fairs and bazaars that women's
organizations hosted to generate funds for their cause. Abolitionist rallies are advertised in other publications; prints from contemporaneous periodicals feature images of some of these rallies. Some songs from anti-slavery organizations have survived, and they were used to get people excited at their meetings. Numerous political and satirical prints from the 1830s to the 1850s that
the Library possesses also highlight the growing sectional controversy of that era.
The major issue here was that the North was trying to free the slaves from the South.In other words they were trying to abolish slaves.This was very difficult because most of half the population did not want the slaves to be free and because of this the country was divided.Due to the fact that they were having this division and many arguments to abolish slavery which then led civil war in America.This was you could say the solution that helped to have a end in slavery.
Personally myself it is very important that everysingle one of us learn about what was going on around these times because it shows us how America was and know the history of how we are still standing today.I learned about the movement that Maria Stewart which was a women conventional where 200 women ,white and black were invited to listen her say how womens could help out to abolish slavery.It was very interesting to know that even tho that some slaves were free they were still afriad because the laws were not set up right aad any day in their life they could become slaves again.At the end of the day,it was a big part that these people did these
movement in order to help out to abolish slavery
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