Class Schedule
Week 3 (February 3-9)
Tuesday, February 5
Topics of Discussion:
Abolitionism
The Defense of Slavery
Readings:
William Lloyd Garrison,
"No Union with Slaveholders"
Frederick
Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Speech (July
4, 1852)
Excerpts from David
Walker's "Appeal"
Excerpts from Harriet
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
George Fitzhugh "Sociology
for the South"
Excerpts from George
Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or Slaves without Masters
James Henry Hammond,
"The Mudsill Speech" (a.k.a. "Cotton is King" Speech) (1858)
John
C. Calhoun, "Slavery a Positive Good" Speech (February 6, 1837)
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 43-58
Thursday, February 7
Topics of Discussion:
The Mexican-American
War (Student-led Discussion)
The Compromise of 1850
Readings:
Henry
Clay Opposes the Mexican-American War (1847)
John
L. O'Sullivan Promotes "Manifest Destiny" (1845)
John
C. Calhoun's Speech on the Compromise of 1850 (March 4, 1850)
Daniel
Webster, "Seventh of March" Speech (March 7, 1850)
William
Henry Seward, "Higher Law" Speech (March 11, 1850)
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 58-77
Food
for Thought for Week 3
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by Hugh Dubrulle, 2002
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