Discussion of doc 67, Rise of the Cotton Kingdom (1836)
1. How does Norcom’s letter suggest the interconnection between the fate of Native Americans and the opportunities open to white migrants to Mississippi?
Norcoms letter clearly points out the rapid, almost spontaneous growth in wealth among the white migrants. Men who could not even afford a pair of shoes made a fortune over a short period of time by basically looking for land in the forest that was viable for growing cotton, direct lazy or rich merchants who would then invest on the lands. He gives a statistical analysis of 50 to 100 men who lacked any formal education become rich over less than five years. He goes ahead it point out that not even one failed in this venture.
5 million …show more content…
How does Taper’s letter reverse the rhetoric, common among white Americans, which saw the United States as a land of freedom and the British empire as lacking in liberty?
United States became independent on 4th July 1976, having successfully revolted from being among the 13 colonies of the Great Britain. In their minds, the white Americans painted the British Empire as colonialists denying them the freedom of liberty. United States became the new world centre for slave trade after the Great Britain abolished this in1833.
Tapers letter clearly antagonizes this state of mind, that United States was a land of freedom, a condition only the white Americans enjoyed.
People of color (Negroes) were enslaved in a ‘free’ state and denied even the most basic of rights, reduced from being humans to mere brutes, human property. They had no right to education, proper food and attire, proper shelter, marrying or getting married. They spoke when spoken to and needed express permission to carry out the smallest of human necessities like toilets. Worked like donkeys and whipped at the smallest mistakes, as fertile female slaves sexually abused by their masters. They had no form of independence …show more content…
What light does Northup’s account shed on the biblical arguments in defense of slavery in doc. 70 (Slavery and the Bible)?
The white men defended their acts of slavery by quoting Bible verses like servants were supposed to obey their master who in real sense owned them.
When Solomon Northrup was sold to Edwin, the master quotes Luke 12:47 that's speaks of a punishment to a servant who doesnt do that which is expected of the master.
The scriptures that spoke of slavery were usually taken out of contest. They insisted Abraham was beloved of God yet had many slaves. The fact that servanthood is mentioned in the ceremonial laws clearly indicated God's approval of the act.
Paul, by not condemning Philemon who had a slave called Onesimus ,a fugitive who Paul took responsibility of his fault. This clearly showed that the Old and New Testament was in agreement to slavery.
Northup having being transferred to a God fearing kind hearted Christian man, William Ford, is caught in a dilemma. Wondering how such a moral straight forward man would take part in such a corrupt institution like slavery. He was treated kindly almost lovingly by the Ford family yet he was still a slave. He came to a conclusion that the apple does not fall far from the tea. William grew up in a corrupt home that enslaved people of color and therefore growing up, despite being a good hearted man, he saw the world from the eyes of his parents and the people before
1. How does Norcom’s letter suggest the interconnection between the fate of Native Americans and the opportunities open to white migrants to Mississippi?
Norcoms letter clearly points out the rapid, almost spontaneous growth in wealth among the white migrants. Men who could not even afford a pair of shoes made a fortune over a short period of time by basically looking for land in the forest that was viable for growing cotton, direct lazy or rich merchants who would then invest on the lands. He gives a statistical analysis of 50 to 100 men who lacked any formal education become rich over less than five years. He goes ahead it point out that not even one failed in this venture.
5 million …show more content…
How does Taper’s letter reverse the rhetoric, common among white Americans, which saw the United States as a land of freedom and the British empire as lacking in liberty?
United States became independent on 4th July 1976, having successfully revolted from being among the 13 colonies of the Great Britain. In their minds, the white Americans painted the British Empire as colonialists denying them the freedom of liberty. United States became the new world centre for slave trade after the Great Britain abolished this in1833.
Tapers letter clearly antagonizes this state of mind, that United States was a land of freedom, a condition only the white Americans enjoyed.
People of color (Negroes) were enslaved in a ‘free’ state and denied even the most basic of rights, reduced from being humans to mere brutes, human property. They had no right to education, proper food and attire, proper shelter, marrying or getting married. They spoke when spoken to and needed express permission to carry out the smallest of human necessities like toilets. Worked like donkeys and whipped at the smallest mistakes, as fertile female slaves sexually abused by their masters. They had no form of independence …show more content…
What light does Northup’s account shed on the biblical arguments in defense of slavery in doc. 70 (Slavery and the Bible)?
The white men defended their acts of slavery by quoting Bible verses like servants were supposed to obey their master who in real sense owned them.
When Solomon Northrup was sold to Edwin, the master quotes Luke 12:47 that's speaks of a punishment to a servant who doesnt do that which is expected of the master.
The scriptures that spoke of slavery were usually taken out of contest. They insisted Abraham was beloved of God yet had many slaves. The fact that servanthood is mentioned in the ceremonial laws clearly indicated God's approval of the act.
Paul, by not condemning Philemon who had a slave called Onesimus ,a fugitive who Paul took responsibility of his fault. This clearly showed that the Old and New Testament was in agreement to slavery.
Northup having being transferred to a God fearing kind hearted Christian man, William Ford, is caught in a dilemma. Wondering how such a moral straight forward man would take part in such a corrupt institution like slavery. He was treated kindly almost lovingly by the Ford family yet he was still a slave. He came to a conclusion that the apple does not fall far from the tea. William grew up in a corrupt home that enslaved people of color and therefore growing up, despite being a good hearted man, he saw the world from the eyes of his parents and the people before