THE+SLAVERY+ARGUMENT

//The Slavery Argument//
//Summary of the Slavery Argument// Slavery has left a scar on families and cultures. This was a travesty to them and will affect people in the present and and people in the future. There were two different sides to slavery. There were the abolitionists and the slave owners. The abolitionists were people who did not believe in slavery and thought that people should not own other people. The slave owners, omnipotent traders, were people who owned slaves and made them do all of their work. They treated them very poorly and did not really care about them. The traders did not like or respect the abolitionists and vice-versa. This caused a civil war that the abolitionists had defeated the traders. The United States of America was not the only place effected by slavery. Actually it was all across the the world. Take Spain for instance, they were under slavery longer than America was. The United States slavery was taken down with the help of some important men and woman. Including John Brown. Nat Turner, Dred Scott, Sojourner Truth and Fredrick Douglas were just a few. Even though there were people stopping slavery, other were pushing slavery to go on. Slavery was one of the most unnecessary travesties in our history. It is humiliating to us that we would do that to our own kind.You should now know briefly understand the long term affects slavery has left on our lives.

//Slavery Argument Essay//



[] //Study Guide// // Key Terms- // -Abolitionists- Were people who believed that slavery was wrong and they fought to try to end it. -Plantation owners- Were people who had slaves. They did not care about them, and treated them harshly. -Slaves- Were people who were tooken from their homes in other countries and brought back to the U.S. as slaves. They lived in run-down homes that the plantaion owners would let them stay in. They worked all day long and don't get anything back for it. -Slavery- is forced labor in which people are considered to be property of others. //Important People-// -These were all abolitionists who fought to end slavery -John Brown- He killed people who wanted slavery to continue and he helped keep slavery from being legal in the new states (like Kansas and Nebraska). Later on, he died trying to help slaves get weapons so they could fight against their owners. -Dred Scott- He tried to fight against slavery in a more peaceful way. He had always lived where slavery was illegal and he wanted it to be illegal across the U.S.A. -Fredrick Douglas- was also a more peaceful abolitionists. He wrote books and gave lectures to try to convince others to help the abolitionists fight against slavery. He told people that it was wrong to own other people and he told them about his life as a slave. -Nat Turner- He killed many Slave owners so that he would be sure that slavery would end -Sojourner Truth- She also helped end slavery by teaching others how slavery was evil. She also fought for equal treatment for women. //Important Places-// -Harpers Ferry, Virginia; Torrington, Connecticut; and the Anti Slavery District //Important Events-// -John Brown's raid