John C. Calhoun was pro-slavery. He sees nothing wrong with slavery and just like the majority of the southerners. The southerners and Calhoun wanted to “preserve quiet” as said in his speech on slavery and the Compromise of 1850. They wanted this silence because they knew it would endanger the union. Most importantly the South wanted the silence because it would “weaken, if not destroy, the political ties which united them with their respective parties in the other section.” Eventually it could no longer be kept quiet and the discontent spread wildly. This discontent was a part of “the long-continued agitation of the slave question on the part of the North and the many aggressions” the North did on the South’s rights. As the discontent grew
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That the Fourth of July is not the anniversary of his freedom even though he is a free slave because he will see the “day and its popular characteristics from a slave’s point of view”. He appreciates everything the fathers had to go through and what they did to obtain the country’s freedom but it is not for him to celebrate. He tells his audience(whites) to appreciate their “justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence” with true patriotism because their fathers truly worked hard and risked their lives for it, and it be fair to be a blind patriot celebrating the 4th of July. Fredrick brings up religion in his speech to compare the “enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, and for the right to worship God” that to begin with the slaves don’t have. He also points out how people(whites) can be religious and at the same time be okay with slavery and not do anything about it. Most importantly he brings up religion because some people truly believe according to the Bible that a “man may, properly, be a slave”, but the Bible could really support both sides. I think that Fredrick’s audience would of not understood his argument before he made it. I feel like it is just a topic they(whites) were so closed minded about, and even if they did there’s not point to understanding if nothing was going to be done. Fredrick argument refutes the pro-slavery people by proving that he is as human as anyone else. He makes them seem heartless for what the slaves have to go
That the Fourth of July is not the anniversary of his freedom even though he is a free slave because he will see the “day and its popular characteristics from a slave’s point of view”. He appreciates everything the fathers had to go through and what they did to obtain the country’s freedom but it is not for him to celebrate. He tells his audience(whites) to appreciate their “justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence” with true patriotism because their fathers truly worked hard and risked their lives for it, and it be fair to be a blind patriot celebrating the 4th of July. Fredrick brings up religion in his speech to compare the “enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, and for the right to worship God” that to begin with the slaves don’t have. He also points out how people(whites) can be religious and at the same time be okay with slavery and not do anything about it. Most importantly he brings up religion because some people truly believe according to the Bible that a “man may, properly, be a slave”, but the Bible could really support both sides. I think that Fredrick’s audience would of not understood his argument before he made it. I feel like it is just a topic they(whites) were so closed minded about, and even if they did there’s not point to understanding if nothing was going to be done. Fredrick argument refutes the pro-slavery people by proving that he is as human as anyone else. He makes them seem heartless for what the slaves have to go