Evaluate the Extent to Which the Institution of Slavery Changed from 1754 to 1850

Question 1

Essay

This question is based on the accompanying documents. The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise. In your response, you will be assessed on the following: Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning. Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. Support an argument in response to the prompt using all but one of the documents. Use at least one additional piece of specific historical evidence (beyond that found in the documents) relevant to an argument about the prompt. For at least three documents, explain how or why the document’s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience is relevant to an argument. Use evidence to corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument that addresses the prompt.

Source 1.1

Ran away from [my] Plantation . . . on Dogue Run in Fairfax [Virginia], on the 9th [of this month], the following Negroes. . . . Peros, . . . Jack, . . . Neptune, . . . [and] Cupid. . . .

George Washington, advertisement placed in the Maryland Gazette, 1761.

Source 1.2

[We] apprehend we have in common with all other men a natural right to our freedoms without Being deprived of them by our fellow men, as we are free-born People and have never forfeited this Blessing by any compact or agreement whatever.

Petition from enslaved African Americans in Massachusetts to the British colonial governor, 1774.

Source 1.3

Be it enacted by the people of the state of New York . . . , That any child born of a slave within this State after the fourth day of July next, shall be deemed . . . to be born free.

An Act for the gradual abolition of slavery, passed by the New York state legislature, 1799.

Source 1.4

Be it enacted, That from and after the first day of January, [1808], it shall not be lawful to import or bring into the United States or the territories thereof from any foreign kingdom, place, or country, any negro, mulatto, or person of colour, as a slave.

An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves, law passed by the United States Congress, 1807.

Source 1.5

Not far from this time [in 1831] Nat Turner’s insurrection [in Virginia] broke out; and the news threw our town into great commotion.

Harriet Jacobs, formerly enslaved African American who escaped from North Carolina, describing in her autobiography events in 1831.

Source 1.6

The figure shows a cartoon of an African American woman kneeling with chains around her wrists. Her head and hands are raised up. A caption states, 'Am I not a woman and a sister?'
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Seal of the Philadelphia Female Antil Slavery Society, an interracial abolitionist group founded in Pennsylvania in 1833

Source 1.7

Slavery is said to be an evil. . . . But it is no evil. On the contrary, I believe it to be the greatest of all the great blessings which a kind Providence has bestowed upon our glorious region.

James Henry Hammond, United States Congressman from South Carolina, speech in the United States House of Representatives, 1836.

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