Global Perspectives Exam 2
novel we read - ANS Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
-owned slaves, used his scientific reputation to defend the institution of slavery. He claimed that
"the negro achieves his greatest perfection, physical and moral, and also greatest longevity, in a
state of slavery".
-Scientist have been disagreed with in the past like Galileo
-Egyptians are caucasians
-Shem and Ham
-Head size of the negro
-Can't say that a white person has been a savage
-Separate creations for the different races - ANS Josiah Nott, "Two Lectures on the Natural
History of the Caucasian and Negro Races"
-Everyone is a man and should be treated as such
-God has made in one blood all of the nations of the earth - ANS Frederick Douglass, "The
Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered"
-believes that slavery is an self-serving and un-Christian-like institution that is
-viewed differently between the North and the South.
-North must purify and set an example for the South rather than simply condemning the south
for their ways
-the south claiming that they must keep slaves to provide for themselves economically is not a
valid argument as the North has an equal need for labor, yet owns far less slaves.
-argues that freedom and slavery cannot coexist.
slaves can immediately get freed successfully and don't need to be slowly integrated into
freedom as some suggest. - ANS Angelina Grimke, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the
South
-does not believe in Grimke's view of abolition.
-does agree with Grimke in the wrong and immoral nature of slavery yet not in her method.
-believes that abolition movements from the North will only anger the South and cause the
progression in abolition to inverse.
-argues that in the spirit of Christianity, slave masters should treat slaves with the utmost
respect and kindness.
-slavery and freedom coexist.
-from this view a slave would not be freed, they would be treated as equals from their master.
-women can help protect the rights of slaves and prevent war.
-worries that if freedom independently comes, war will break out. - ANS Catherine Beecher, An
Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism Addressed to Miss A. E. Grimke
, -slavery should be stopped as a unified nation.
-If not, Lincoln fears that the nation will become self-serving and states will only argue and
resent one another.
-Lincoln sees the states as "bonds of union" (10) and believes they should act as such. - ANS
Abraham Lincoln, "Lincoln-Douglas Debate"
-the spread of slavery into territories should be determined by popular sovereignty, allowing
states and territories to decide a course of action
-by allowing states and territories this freedom, peace will continue in the Union.
-the founding fathers intended for this independence, and the unity of the nation would be put at
risk if a national rule of integration and freedom for slaves was put in place.
-the nation should be supportive but not supreme over the states. - ANS Stephen Douglas,
"Lincoln-Douglas Debate"
-To succeed from the federal union
-Explains the economic impact of slavery
-List many seizes and changes
-"Utter subjugation awaits us in the Union, if we should consent longer to remain in it. It is not a
matter of choice, but of necessity."
-"Our decision is made. We follow their footsteps. We embrace the alternative of separation; and
for the reasons here stated, we resolve to maintain our rights with the full consciousness of the
justice of our course, and the undoubting belief of our ability to maintain it." - ANS Mississippi
Secession
-"frequent violations to the constitution" and going against the states rights
-quotes the declaration of independence in the right to be free and independent states and that
when government because destructive, it is the right of the people to abolish it
-brought articles of confederation and three branches of government
- repeats "FREE, SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT STATES"
-approval from south carolina that any rights not given to the nation are given to the state
- "Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered
vain, by the fact that public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the
sanction of more erroneous religious belief." - ANS South Carolina Declaration of Succession
-During the Revolutions of 1848, a series of liberal nationalist movements
that swept across Europe, Hungarians rebelled against the Habsburg Empire, a rebellion
which ended in failure in 1849. Initially, they had tried to remain within the empire but reform
the system of government, but eventually, they tried to formally separate. This is their
declaration of Independence.
-Talks about the Austria treaty that Hungry made to give them power
-Talks about the God blessing them
-How great they are and intense descriptions of the land
novel we read - ANS Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
-owned slaves, used his scientific reputation to defend the institution of slavery. He claimed that
"the negro achieves his greatest perfection, physical and moral, and also greatest longevity, in a
state of slavery".
-Scientist have been disagreed with in the past like Galileo
-Egyptians are caucasians
-Shem and Ham
-Head size of the negro
-Can't say that a white person has been a savage
-Separate creations for the different races - ANS Josiah Nott, "Two Lectures on the Natural
History of the Caucasian and Negro Races"
-Everyone is a man and should be treated as such
-God has made in one blood all of the nations of the earth - ANS Frederick Douglass, "The
Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered"
-believes that slavery is an self-serving and un-Christian-like institution that is
-viewed differently between the North and the South.
-North must purify and set an example for the South rather than simply condemning the south
for their ways
-the south claiming that they must keep slaves to provide for themselves economically is not a
valid argument as the North has an equal need for labor, yet owns far less slaves.
-argues that freedom and slavery cannot coexist.
slaves can immediately get freed successfully and don't need to be slowly integrated into
freedom as some suggest. - ANS Angelina Grimke, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the
South
-does not believe in Grimke's view of abolition.
-does agree with Grimke in the wrong and immoral nature of slavery yet not in her method.
-believes that abolition movements from the North will only anger the South and cause the
progression in abolition to inverse.
-argues that in the spirit of Christianity, slave masters should treat slaves with the utmost
respect and kindness.
-slavery and freedom coexist.
-from this view a slave would not be freed, they would be treated as equals from their master.
-women can help protect the rights of slaves and prevent war.
-worries that if freedom independently comes, war will break out. - ANS Catherine Beecher, An
Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism Addressed to Miss A. E. Grimke
, -slavery should be stopped as a unified nation.
-If not, Lincoln fears that the nation will become self-serving and states will only argue and
resent one another.
-Lincoln sees the states as "bonds of union" (10) and believes they should act as such. - ANS
Abraham Lincoln, "Lincoln-Douglas Debate"
-the spread of slavery into territories should be determined by popular sovereignty, allowing
states and territories to decide a course of action
-by allowing states and territories this freedom, peace will continue in the Union.
-the founding fathers intended for this independence, and the unity of the nation would be put at
risk if a national rule of integration and freedom for slaves was put in place.
-the nation should be supportive but not supreme over the states. - ANS Stephen Douglas,
"Lincoln-Douglas Debate"
-To succeed from the federal union
-Explains the economic impact of slavery
-List many seizes and changes
-"Utter subjugation awaits us in the Union, if we should consent longer to remain in it. It is not a
matter of choice, but of necessity."
-"Our decision is made. We follow their footsteps. We embrace the alternative of separation; and
for the reasons here stated, we resolve to maintain our rights with the full consciousness of the
justice of our course, and the undoubting belief of our ability to maintain it." - ANS Mississippi
Secession
-"frequent violations to the constitution" and going against the states rights
-quotes the declaration of independence in the right to be free and independent states and that
when government because destructive, it is the right of the people to abolish it
-brought articles of confederation and three branches of government
- repeats "FREE, SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT STATES"
-approval from south carolina that any rights not given to the nation are given to the state
- "Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered
vain, by the fact that public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the
sanction of more erroneous religious belief." - ANS South Carolina Declaration of Succession
-During the Revolutions of 1848, a series of liberal nationalist movements
that swept across Europe, Hungarians rebelled against the Habsburg Empire, a rebellion
which ended in failure in 1849. Initially, they had tried to remain within the empire but reform
the system of government, but eventually, they tried to formally separate. This is their
declaration of Independence.
-Talks about the Austria treaty that Hungry made to give them power
-Talks about the God blessing them
-How great they are and intense descriptions of the land
