HIST 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Fugitive Slaves In The United States
Document Summary
1850s white women writes a series of articles in the newspaper and these are put into a put called uncle tom. Written to a response of a political decision. Compromise: fugitive slave act - federal government is gonna get runaway slaves and get citizens to participate (you had to help) Institution of slavery, morality of slavery, various african americans moving through different white owners. Images increase within two editions because they wanted to sell more. Southern whites want to defend themselves for southern slavery, they have to go to the north. Chapter 1 - he"s not less than a slave. Chapter 2 & 3 - people who are part of family units. Chapter 5 - people in families who have inferiorities, who have feelings. Giving a sense of humans with feelings compared to what the law shows them. Chapter 9 - political person is not above others.
