Demonstrate an understanding of the defenses slavery apologists used and compare these arguments with the ones made by abolitionists of the same period.

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Demonstrate an understanding of the defenses slavery apologists used and compare these arguments with the ones made by abolitionists of the same period.

In 3 paragraphs, explore the justifications for slavery used in a primary source document and contrast these justifications with abolitionists arguments made in other primary source documents.  See below for the list of primary source documents from the unit:

    • Paragraph 1 should explore the arguments made for slavery and how the lives of slaves are characterized in the primary source "George Fitzhugh argues that slavery is better than liberty and equality”
      • Some GOOD questions to ask yourself when writing your first paragraph are: 
        • What are his feelings about liberty and equality? 
        • How does he use the Appeal to History fallacy? 
        • Which parts of his argument rely on paternalism? 
        • What are his feelings about wage-labor economy? 
        • What does he see as the consequences of this sort of labor regime? 
        • Does he see the plantation economy of the South as capitalistic or something else entirely? 
    • Paragraphs 2 & 3 should use evidence from other primary source abolitionist documents  to refute the apologist arguments made in Fitzhugh’s document. Your posting should contain a minimum of three (3) paragraphs, with each paragraph containing 4+ sentences each.
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