Southern Pro-Slavery Arguments: The 'Positive Good' Defense

Abolitionism in Conflict: Literature, Backlash, and Politics

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Contrast Northern abolitionist arguments with John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh's claims of paternalism, wage-slavery critique, and biblical justification.

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Abolitionism in Conflict: Literature, Backlash, and Politics

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

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Analyze anti-slavery literature, the fierce Southern and Northern opposition to emancipation, and the shift toward political party activism in the antebellum era.

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USI.T4.2.aMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

the Abolitionist movement, the reasons individual men and women (e.g., Frederick Douglass, Abbey Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Charles Lennox Remond, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, David Walker, Theodore Weld) fought for their cause, and the responses of southern and northern white men and women to abolitionism.