Not every slave owner acted with hatred and violence to their slaves. The Virginia paper reported on January 19, 1860 that a slave owner form Virginia paid his slaves $550 dollars for raising corn. Another man paid his slaves $600 for similar work. Lastly, a man paid his slaves $300 for work, yet it is quite possible that the reward payment was exaggerated. Not all slave owners treated their slaves with disrespect and ruthless aggression. In this case, slave owners were actually rewarding their slaves for work well done. Perhaps the article may contain slight bias, but it should not conceal the fact that life on a slave plantation may not be worse than living as freedman in the North. Slavery is unconstitutional and immoral, nevertheless discrimination,
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Another article published the story of Bob, a 15-year-old slave boy, owned by Mrs. Margaret A. Crawford. Bob headed to the depot where the engine “H. D. Whitcomb” was on display. A Caucasian gentleman asked Bob his thoughts on the machine and Bob said, "pretty big work, Master, but I think I can make one like it." The man laughed at him, if an African American was not capable of constructing an engine of his own. Despite public opinion Bob constructed a machine like the H.D Whitcomb and he was later labeled a “negro genius”. Bob’s fellow citizens did acknowledge his intelligence and placed Bob in a machine shop. Bob is evidence that Southerners did not neglect the skills and capabilities of slaves. It is unknown of what Bob’s life could be if he was a freeman in the North, however he would have dealt with the same amount of discrimination as he did in the South because regardless of where an African American person resided, discrimination would haunt them and never let African Americans to reach their full potential during this time in American …show more content…
Another article tells the story of a lynching of an African American man in Marshall County, Missouri who allegedly murdered a Caucasian man. The African American man was brought to the outskirts of the town, stripped of his clothes and was ignited in flames. This horrifying lynching did shine a very dull light on the fact that this type of punishment is immoral, unforgivable and an act of pure evil. This article was printed by the The Staunton, and the origin of the article was from a St. Louis democrat. Southern states like Missouri were not the only ones to participate in lynching. The NAACP stated that 79% percent of lynching occurred in the South, an extremely high number, yes, however that left 21% of lynching to occur in the Northern States. It is evident that African Americans and slaves were living in danger all over the nation not just in the South, nevertheless that did not stop Caucasian slave-owners from trying to gain compassion from others by voicing their concerns of Insurrection. The amount of hypocrisy that is shown by the slaveholders is breathtaking. Not only are they holding slaves’ captive and treating them with absolute brutality, they separated them from their family and friends. Slave rebellion usually occurred on plantations were slave treatment was sickening. It is the slave owners own fault that they face the dangers of
Another article published the story of Bob, a 15-year-old slave boy, owned by Mrs. Margaret A. Crawford. Bob headed to the depot where the engine “H. D. Whitcomb” was on display. A Caucasian gentleman asked Bob his thoughts on the machine and Bob said, "pretty big work, Master, but I think I can make one like it." The man laughed at him, if an African American was not capable of constructing an engine of his own. Despite public opinion Bob constructed a machine like the H.D Whitcomb and he was later labeled a “negro genius”. Bob’s fellow citizens did acknowledge his intelligence and placed Bob in a machine shop. Bob is evidence that Southerners did not neglect the skills and capabilities of slaves. It is unknown of what Bob’s life could be if he was a freeman in the North, however he would have dealt with the same amount of discrimination as he did in the South because regardless of where an African American person resided, discrimination would haunt them and never let African Americans to reach their full potential during this time in American …show more content…
Another article tells the story of a lynching of an African American man in Marshall County, Missouri who allegedly murdered a Caucasian man. The African American man was brought to the outskirts of the town, stripped of his clothes and was ignited in flames. This horrifying lynching did shine a very dull light on the fact that this type of punishment is immoral, unforgivable and an act of pure evil. This article was printed by the The Staunton, and the origin of the article was from a St. Louis democrat. Southern states like Missouri were not the only ones to participate in lynching. The NAACP stated that 79% percent of lynching occurred in the South, an extremely high number, yes, however that left 21% of lynching to occur in the Northern States. It is evident that African Americans and slaves were living in danger all over the nation not just in the South, nevertheless that did not stop Caucasian slave-owners from trying to gain compassion from others by voicing their concerns of Insurrection. The amount of hypocrisy that is shown by the slaveholders is breathtaking. Not only are they holding slaves’ captive and treating them with absolute brutality, they separated them from their family and friends. Slave rebellion usually occurred on plantations were slave treatment was sickening. It is the slave owners own fault that they face the dangers of