IDENTIFYING MULTIPLE

PERSPECTIVES ON SLAVERY
Person 3 Details of Person’s View Actions Person Took to
on Slavery Support Viewpoint
John C. Calhoun

§ Three Beliefs…
  Believed the states, NOT Congress, had the right to
determine whether slavery should be allowed in a particular
state
  Believed slavery is a domestic institution
  Believed slavery is a “positive good” – it is impossible for
whites and African Americans to exist together in the same
community
John C. Calhoun

§ Actions taken to support his viewpoint…

  Attempted to rally all Southern congressmen to go against
any anti-slavery laws
  When he died in 1850, his last words were said to be,
“The South! The poor South!
Frederick Douglass

§ Three Beliefs…
  Opposed slavery
  Believed slavery is wicked
  Urged President Lincoln to allow former slaves to fight for
the North
Frederick Douglass

§ Actions taken to support his viewpoint…

  Leading abolitionist
  Lectured on the evils of slavery
  Gave his lecture fees to aid runaway slaves
  Wrote his autobiography, which described slavery from a
slave’s point of view
  Published his own anti-slavery newspaper, the North Star
William Lloyd Garrison

§ Three Beliefs…
  Demanded an immediate, no-compromise end to slavery
  Believed everyone who tolerated slavery was to blame
  Believed the Northern states should secede from the Union
William Lloyd Garrison

§ Actions taken to support his viewpoint…

  Published the newspaper The Liberator
  Helped to lead a successful movement to abolish slavery
  Helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society
The Grimke Sisters

§ Three Beliefs…
  Believed slavery was morally wrong
  Believed whatever is right for a man to do is morally right
for a woman to do
  Believed that southern women needed to stop slavery
The Grimke Sisters

§ Actions taken to support his viewpoint…

  Moved to the North
  Became active in the abolitionist movement
  Wrote pamphlets in 1836
  Freed slaves that their mother had given them
  Became traveling lecturers of the American Anti-Slavery
Society
Hinton Helper

§ Three Beliefs…
  Criticized slavery not because it was bad for African
Americans but because it hurt whites
  Believed that if African Americans stayed in the United
States, they should have no rights and should be completely
segregated from whites
  Believed that whites who were not wealthy enough to buy
slaves, could not succeed financially
Hinton Helper

§ Actions taken to support his viewpoint…

  Wrote a book The Impending Crisis of the South: How to
Meet It
  Wrote a letter Death to Slavery! Down with the Slaveholders!
Away with the Negroes!
Abraham Lincoln

§ Three Beliefs…
  Strong belief in personal freedom
  Against allowing slavery to expand into new western
territories
  Believed in preserving the Union
Abraham Lincoln

§ Actions taken to support his viewpoint…

  Wanted to preserve the Union so he promised not to
interfere with slavery in the South
James K. Paulding

§ Three Beliefs…
  Believed slavery should be in the South to preserve the
Union
  Believed that African Americans enjoyed a much better
lifestyle than did workers in England and Africa
  Believed that African Americans were inferior to whites
James K. Paulding

§ Actions taken to support his viewpoint…

  Wrote a book Slavery in the United States
George Fitzhugh

§ Three Beliefs…
  Believed the Northern and British working classes would
have been better off under a system of slavery than in the
“free society”
  Believed conditions for workers in the North were worse
than conditions for slaves
  Believed slaves were inferior
George Fitzhugh

§ Actions taken to support his viewpoint…

  Wrote the following pamphlets Slavery Justified and The
Failure of Free Society
  Wrote a book Sociology for the South
Harriet Tubman

§ Three Beliefs…
  She was against slavery
  She escaped from slavery using the Underground Railroad
  Wanted to help other slaves to freedom by becoming a
conductor of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman

§ Actions taken to support his viewpoint…

  Became a conductor of the Underground Railroad and
helped over 300 slaves to freedom