American Studies 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: William Lloyd Garrison, Northern United States, White Fathers

• School: Western University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: American Studies 1020
• Professor: Tom Cull

Document Summary

Django unchained and 12 years a slave. America is probably in a new phase of documenting slavery. Documenting the police brutality against men, women and children of colour: also the high incarceration rate of people of colour. People would like to believe that society is now colour blind but society shows that this is not true. George mason of virginia: every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of cause and effects, providence punishes national sin by national calamities. Both agreed that slavery was morally wrong yet owned slaves and believed that state rights should trump national rights on this subject. Lecture: argued that slavery was a question of property right religion and humanity have nothing to do with the questions . Article 1 section 2: three fifths clause.