Meghan Sias English10 Loguen SOAPSS Subject: Jermain Loguen, in his speech “I am a Fugitive Slave”; he publically explains how wrong the recent Fugitive slave act is. And asks the city in which he lives in, Syracuse, to become a refugee for fugitive slaves. Loguen insinuates that it would be foolish to allow this act to be passed without opposition. This speech is a cry for help in which his faith in the people of Syracuse is shown. Occasion: This speech was delivered on October 4, 1850, shortly after the Fugitive slave act was passed, which Loguen is responding to.
The African Americans, united in their quest for creating ‘a perfect union’ which at its very earliest ended when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified. Barker (2013), in his book, recollects the autobiographical notes and personal anecdote of various events from the black and white slaves who played an integral part in the American war against slavery. A socio political approach is used by Barker to engage his readers in how the African Americans continued their battle in middle 1800s. There are eight cases of the fleeing bondsmen included in the books who were pursued by their owners and in some cases, by the federal allies who claimed ownership of these slaved under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. In the chapters that follow, along with the well reclaimed fugitive slaves, Barker also introduced their abolitionist allies including Theodore Parker, Lewis Hayden, Frederick Douglas, Wendell Phillips and Samuel Joseph May who are proclaimed as the Revolutionary war heroes.
In 1841 he lobbied successfully for the abolition of the sojourner law, which permitted slave owners to visit the state briefly with their slaves. He also lectured on behalf of the Fugitive Aid Society. An active reporter on education to the black national convention movement of the 1850s, he was secretary of the 1853 (July 6-8) convention in Rochester, New York. He spoke out against the American Colonization Society and Garnet's African Civilization Society. In 1849 Reason, along with J. W. C. Pennington and Frederick Douglass, sponsored a mass demonstration against colonization at Shiloh Presbyterian Church in New York City.
Douglass vs. Fitzhugh American Slavery By Paige Arnette Tuesday and Thursday 12:15-1:30 lecture George Fitzhugh and Frederick Douglass had very opposing outlooks on slavery. Both men presented their speeches, leaving many people to choose a side during the mid 1800’s. Fitzhugh’s side seems to be more opinionated and very biased with a racist view, whereas Douglass shows a more personal standpoint. This paper compares and contrasts the opponents’ arguments on American slavery and shows detailed support that both men had to back up their opinion. When Frederick Douglass addressed the audience with his speech, it was very emotional and straight from his heart.
“Frederick Douglass was the most important African American leader and intellectual of the nineteenth century. He lived twenty years as a slave and nearly nine years as a fugitive slave” (Blight, 1). He planned on escaping from the plantation and starting a new life dedicated to the fight for equality. His early attempts failed, but finally in 1838, he managed to board a train that was headed to Maryland and out of the south, from there Douglass travelled to New York to the house of David Ruggles, who was also an anti-slavery activist. His autobiography focuses on his life as a salve and how these hardships shaped the man he became later on in his life.
Douglass is moved to Baltimore, Maryland. This is important because he believes that if he had not been moved, he would have remained a slave his entire life. At the age of ten or eleven, Douglass' master Colonel Edward Lloyd dies and his property is left to be divided between his son Thomas Auld and daughter Lucretia Auld. For one year Douglass is under the control of Edward Covey who works and beats him to exhaustion, but Douglass eventually fights back, wins and is never beaten again. He is sent to live on another plantation where he befriends other slaves
Slavery has been a part of our history for hundreds of years. Eventually abolitionist movements helped outlaw slavery, but still today it is a controversial topic in society. Gary Collison, who is a Caucasian English professor at Pennsylvania State University, wrote the novel Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. He wrote this book to voice the truth about hardships of slavery and discrimination. Collison follows Minkins throughout the continent as he is a slave in Norfolk, VA, a fugitive in Boston, and a free black man in Montreal.
They portrayed Brown as a man who died fighting against the injustice of slavery. True or not, the martyr image gave strength to the moral cause of abolition. The Disruption of the Democrats In the 1860 election, Democrats tried, and failed, to nominate a candidate at their convention in Charleston, SC. The party was squarely split over the slavery issue. Northern Democrats had a convention in Baltimore and nominated Stephen Douglas with a popular sovereignty position.
During the years that lead to the United States Civil War, the embroilment over slavery became not only a social controversy, but also a legal and political one. Supporters, and non-supporters of slavery each looked to the American constitution as well as the predominant culture of the time for direction in handling this matter. One person whom established their landmark works on this was Frederick Douglas, an emancipated slave, who fought relentlessly for the abolishment of slavery. In 1852, Frederick Douglas was allowed to speak his thoughts at the July 4th celebration. In his speech, he made it known that he despised the treatment of the Black slaves, as well as the irony and hypocrisy that followed.
Equiano spoke at a large number of public meetings where he described the cruelty of the slave trade. In 1787 Equiano helped his friend, Offobah Cugoano, to published an account of his experiences, Narrative of the Enslavement of a Native of America. Copies of his book was sent to George III and leading politicians. He failed to persuade the king to change his opinions and like other members of the royal family remained against abolition of the slave trade. Equiano published his own autobiography, The Life of Olaudah Equiano the African in 1789.