In the 19th century, slavery was a helpful tool to the southerners. This allowed them to make a tremendous amount of money. Positive and negative attributes were involved in the process of slavery. In two articles and four pictures, slavery will be explained in different point of views.
For example, In the Pro Slavery argument, there are three excerpts. In the first excerpt, it is addressing the physical and moral proofs of the Negroes. It states that the Negroes intelligence was drawn from history and also has multiple explanations of status for the Negroes. The explanation of his characters was said to indicate a low mind. His eyes were very important to the makeup of a Negro. Also the reduced facial were said to be those of a violent …show more content…
None of them are subject to steal and want. Everything they need is given to them if they work for their master. Also, if their servants are intelligent, they are more likely to make more money rather than more substance. Slavery made him an orderly and effective worker rather than a savage, conforms him, and helps improve his mind morals and manners. In the Church and prejudice article, Frederick Douglass attended a church for communion in the north. While the blacks stood in the back, the whites took communion. After they were completed, the server invited the blacks to the front saying “Come up, colored friends, Come up! For you know God is no respecter of persons!” He tells the story of a young black girl who was baptized in the same water as the white people. After the young colored girl was out, she thought she would sit at the Lord’s Table with everyone else. The deacon handed around a rounded cup and everyone took a sip, and once the cup was to the point of the black girl they were forced to hand it to her since the minister was staring at them. Then the white girl beside the black girl, hesitated none and proceeded out the door of the church. Later