What advice does Dr. Cartwright have for slaveowners and why?

In the 1820s, 1830, and 1840s, the Second Great Awakening helped to inspire a reformist impulse across the nation. One of those movements centered on an effort to abolish slavery in the United States; of course, the desire to eliminate slavery did not go unchallenged. In this activity, you will examine the views of antislavery (abolitionist) and proslavery writers in the antebellum years. This discussion will help you better understand a controversy that permeated American life in the years leading up to the Civil War.

Required Readings

Read the following pro- and anti-slavery documents

Pro-Slavery
George Fitzhugh Advocates Slavery
Disease and Peculiarities of the Negro Race
James Henry Hammond Advocates Slavery
Abolitionists
Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
Henry Garnet, “An Address to the Slaves of the United States”
William Lloyd Garrison, “No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery”
Your posting should be at least 3 paragraphs in length and answer the following questions:

Contextualization: Why was the South so dependent on slavery in the 19th century and how would abolishing slavery affect the South economically and socially?

Pro-slavery authors
1. How do Fitzhugh and Hammond justify slavery? (6-7 sentences)
2. What advice does Dr. Cartwright have for slaveowners and why? (3-4 sentences)

Abolitionist authors
1. How and why do Garnett and Garrison believe slavery needs to be abolished? (6-7 sentences)
2. What specific criticisms does Douglass have about American society? (3-4 sentences)

In your responses please include short quotes from the documents to support your general statements.

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