Post # 6

The team had explained to the class about the changes that were going on to help end slavery at the hardest times in history. I did the understanding of the why underground railroad is a such huge key of leading to the end of slavery. It helped get more of the majority to join along in the abolition movement mostly. 

I learned that there were so many conductors helping the slaves escape by using routes to get to the north. Harriet Tubman was mostly the leader of the operations and she did the most trips out of all the conductors during the operations of the underground railroad. Tubman wanted to make sure that slaves got their freedom which many of them did thanks to her.

I found it interesting that there are some other things on this topic too that was going on while they were presenting. It was cool to learn about the Kansas and Nebraska Act which caused Bleeding Kansas to happen from the results of Kansas becoming a slave state to help even out the amount of slave and nonslave states. 

I remembered learning about Bleeding Kansas in high school so it’s kind of a review for me learning about this information all over again. It was interesting to see that people would go to vote in another state just so that they could have one state be a slave state for themselves. Their government would be a pro-slavery as well along with wanting to make sure there are slaves working on people’s properties for them. 

https://www.britannica.com/event/Bleeding-Kansas-United-States-history

Post # 5

The idea of slavery comes from many perspectives that either in the south or the north during that time period. While I understand the importance of slavery since it was an essential thing to the south’s economy to maintain afloat. The religious leaders even were favored in slavery at one point then against their beliefs. 

It’s understood from statistics that the majority of America’s population is in the north more than the south. If I live in the north during this time I would definitely be against slavery for sure because it’s an unfair treatment to African Americans. It was known that they didn’t have any slaves in the north; it was outlawed by the state governments up there. 

While it’s my understanding that slavery is wrong while it comes with religion being involved in to very much so. This problem has gone on for many years and it took such a long time for it to come to an end. There are so many commotions with this that this lead to a civil war more than a hundred years later to get slavery to end. 

In my opinion, the court system needs to understand that we have learned from our mistakes very much about being careful with racial problems going on. It needs to be shown for that by understanding people’s opinions basically. I changed the meaning of freedom they want it to be for themselves. Everyone should understand that very much that slavery should be justified in away. 

References

Slavery Picture

https://www.antislavery.org/development-abolitionist-movement-history/

Learned from the Slavery Town Hall

 In the town hall, I learned many interesting facts that were a huge takeaway from the topic that I’m learning about in my class. It surprised that some pro-slavery people would turn to supporting the abolishment of slavery during that time instead of sticking with their roots. Henry Clay started the movement of abolishing slavery while turning away from being a supporter of slavery himself who had slaves. Thomas Jefferson was one of those people too who had slaves then became against slavery. 

I found it interesting that slavery was a way to help you to get more politics by using that practice to get more people to vote for that candidate. Also, not many states in the south didn’t need slavery as much as others because they were able to keep their economy flowing at well. I feel not all states don’t need slavery to support them that well, and can find other ways.

Many of the pro-slavery people thought that having slavery was a way of life and that everyone should have slaves on their plantations so they could be socially accepted. Not everyone needs slaves to fit in with people in the south. Mostly philanthropists helped the abolishments with donating money to their organizations. They wanted to end slavery by doing that with helping the promotion of the message of that across the country with that certainty.

All of the slave owners had so many slaves on their plantations that they had to build small cabins for them to live on the plantation.  Jefferson did that for his slaves so that they can have a place to live and be safe for them. 

Slavery Family

The Frederick Douglas Game Post

 My name is Arthur Tappan of New York and I represent the abolishing of slavery to end in this debate today. My brother, Lewis Tappan, and I have been successful in our business within silk before becoming part of the abolitionist movement. I believe that slavery is something that shouldn’t be practice no more in the society that we live in today.

 I was apart of the American Anti Slavery Society that supported the idea of abolition slavery and spread our message about this to America. The slave owners are hurting the slaves which are not human-like to do that to a person. There is evidence shown of the owners beating their slaves with a whip on their backs which is very wrong. 

 I want the people to know this is something against my beliefs as a follower of Christ in my religion. While the pro-slavery don’t get that this has been an issue for such a long time. In society, I’m part of our message is to spread the wrongful of slavery around America, and some of the north has joined in our movement that is going on right now. There are other ways of getting work done on plantations without the need for slaves. 

Also, I support the underground railroad and their ways of making sure slaves can escape the south to get to the north for their freedom. Those people who escaped want to have the freedom and live a normal life of being treated well with respect. This allows us in America to have more diversity with them working different jobs. I believe that we don’t all have to be the same as each other. It's good to be different and have different ethics all around. Plus these African-Americans worked harder than themselves of white people who really don’t do anything much. 

They’ve done a lot of hard labor which has affected their health, and some have led to deaths. It’s bad that this is going on and they don’t understand the effects of physically and mentally on the slaves. Even young children shouldn’t have to go through this pain at a young age because they don’t deserve this treatment they need to be put in a good home. 

Another point I think is that the families shouldn’t have to be separated when being sold or traded. Slavery has many those of bad qualities which is why it should be dissolved and voted into law that it’s banned. In my newspapers, I found abolitionist journals to help promote the message of abolishing slavery. I used my journal as a source free of “immortal advertisements” during this time of change going on in this period. All of us as humans in the world need to understand that point on this topic. 

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Amy Tikkanen. “Arthur Tappan.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 19 July 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Tappan. 

Saul, Eric. “American Abolitionists and Antislavery Activists: Conscience of the Nation.” Illustrated List of Abolitionists and Activists, American Abolitionist.com , 4 Apr. 2020, www.americanabolitionists.com/illustrated-list-of-abolitionists-and-activists.html. 

Ohio History Central. “Arthur and Lewis Tappan.” Arthur and Lewis Tappan - Ohio History Central, Ohio History Central Connection , 10 Sept. 2020, ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Arthur_and_Lewis_Tappan. 

Philanthropy Roundtable. “Arthur and Lewis Tappan.” Philanthropy Roundtable, Philanthropy Roundtable , 10 Sept. 2020, www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/people/hall-of-fame/detail/arthur-and-lewis-tappan. 

Post #2 Religion Team Challenge

 

Over the span of time slavery has been a very controversial topic, There has always been someone profiting off of slavery and someone who is being used and abused, Religion has been a source to condone or condemn these two ideas for hundreds of years. To fully understand both sides of the argument one must through the lens of these two conflicting ideas.  

The religion of Christianity has viewed slavery in certain ways. While some of them supported it as a way to live a life. The supporters of this religion believe that slavery is part of Christianity. It says that there are many other ideals involved in this way. 

They have changed over time with the events that have happened in history and the bible. Christian slaveholders always thought slavery was an important part of the bible. Reluctantly, the supporters of it started to see some other options on how to keep slavery alive. 

Christianity has condemned slavery many times when looking back on time. Christian slaveholders did support it through believing it’s the way of life to have slaves. It doesn’t show in the bible about condoning slavery. During the Old Testament, it talks about how the Christians would think otherwise in that phase of what to do in that situation. While it takes on some people to get that point. 

If you want to know how Christianity views slavery, you must look at what the Bible says itself and not what man says about the Bible. The first chapter of Genesis records, "Then God said, Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and overall the creatures that move along the ground." Undeniably, the Bible is stating here that man does not have the authority to dominate another man. Actually, Slavery goes against the very nature of God. As spelled out in Deuteronomy 30:19, God has given man a free will of his own, "Today I give you a choice." This choice demonstrates that God refuses to force a man to do anything against his will. To enslave a person is to take their God-given freedom away from them. Even when looking at the overall theme of the Bible, Jesus came to set prisoners free from the enemy, it is clear that Slavery in the eyes of God is condemned.

Rae, Noel. “How Christian Slaveholders Used the Bible to Justify Slavery.” Time, Time, 23 Feb. 2018, time.com/5171819/christianity-slavery-book-excerpt/. 

Zauzmer, Julie. “The Bible Was Used to Justify Slavery. Then Africans Made It Their Path to Freedom.” The Washington Post , 30 Apr. 2019,

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