Slavery: A Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

H. Manly, a southerner, and pro-slavery activist wrote the source, The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists in 1836. This source is a series of letters posted in the newspaper. He wrote the source for all white people to counteract the arguments of the northern abolishment. The agenda was to express his views as well as many other southerners views on why slavery should not get abolished and counter the argument of a northern abolitionist. A source that counteracts what Manly had to say was a Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass written in 1845 when northern and southern activists argued on behalf of enslaved Black Americans. The author is Frederick Douglass he was a slave in Maryland in his youthful days and …show more content…
any southerners were pro-slavery although some would argue that physical punishment on the slaves is wrong many were unaware of what was happening on these fields and others choose to ignore it because their lives were better with slaves so why try to change anything. Southerners argued to Northerners that slaves were protected, “The slaves of the South are protected from the abuse or wrong by liberal laws, justify administered Improper punishment, underfeeding or overworking, are prevented by enactments” (Manly 314). Most Northerners did not believe this to be true because oftentimes slaves would spread stories of their time in slavery to the North, “I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at a time, and this, too, in the midst of her crying children” (Douglas 302). During this time slaves rebelling against their masters and wanting freedom was very common they believed their life was unfair and wanted out, but the slave owners saw them as property and punishment as a form of asserting power so they did not try to run or