Douglass similarly professes from his experience as a slave that slavery proved as harmful to him as it did his slave-mistress in that it destroyed her sense of morality and corrupted her soul. ... Douglass recalled how slaves from different plantations would fight over whose master was richer or smarter thinking that the "greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves (Douglass 354)." ). ... When Douglass imparts the misfortunes of Aunt Hester, he provides the details of her whipping and what reason the master had for whipping her but he stops there and implicitly asks t...

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Kennith Stampp, said throughout his paper that slaves were, in some cases, content with their lives because those who were born into slavery had no way of knowing the morality or ethics behind their position due to only knowing slavery from their first breath. ... Also, Stampp gave insight to potential reasoning by supporters of slavery in that they argued due to the kindness the masters showed the slaves, the slaves were cheerful and content with their servitude. ... He demonstrates his uniqueness through his approach of giving a variety of perspectives and by his in-depth analysis and sociol...

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This was an efficient approach as the Bible was used frequently by advocates against slavery because it was the "the standard of morality and religion". ... " "God, instead of teaching Abraham, his chosen servant, that it was immoral to use and buy his slaves, demanded from him the performance of certain things, which required that the relation of master and slave should be kept up, not only during Abraham's time but in all future ages.... They cannot be disunited, without abrogating at once the rights of the master, and absolving the slave from his subjection. ... But...

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It seems that only someone with a sense of morality that has been dulled as a constant perpetrator and witness of atrocities could place the blame squarely in the lap of a victim, compounding the tragedy. ... "These God breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend."" (4) When it comes to economic gain all sense of religious principles seem to vanish. ...

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The issue was not the morality of slavery, but rather the concrete aspects of population, taxation, commerce, and representation. ... We are intimately acquainted with the problems that their constitution should have been designed to master; in short, we have the read the mystery story backwards. ...

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• Grade Level: High School