Slavery Cartwright And Frederick Douglas: An Analysis

Slavery, even until this day, is a heavy topic and a topic which can bring about the strongest of debates. Was slavery needed? Was it inhumane, or was it something that had to happen for black people to survive during the Union? There were people who felt that slavery was what had been intended for black people due to how inferior their minds were compared to white men and how they were just like children, they had to have everything overseen for them. Now there are the people on the other side that knows the hardships of a slave and knows that slaves are people too and should be lumped together with property as if they mean nothing to the world. Among the many voices that spoke out during the Abolitionist era, two voices stand out the most. Cartwright and Frederick Douglas. The two stand on opposite sides and do their best to argue …show more content…
On the side of pro-slavery Cartwright writes an article called “Report on the Diseases of and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race,” which talks about the medical ways a black person is inferior and different to a white man. He highlights that “…not only in the skin, that a difference in color exists between the negro and the white man…Even the negro’s brain and nerves…are tinctured with a shade of the pervading darkness,” (Cartwright 158.) He talks of