Town Hall

In history the abolishment of slavery was always a topic of if or when. Throughout the years there was always two sides to the story. 

In my class we decided to do a mock town hall meeting to recreate how it would have been back in the day if they would talk about slavery. 

The class was split into two different sides, the people for slavery, like Samual Morse, and the people against slavery, like the infamous Fredrick Douglas. 

Throughout the Town Hall we would take turns arguing our views on the subject. Although we would switch between the two sides we heard many of the same arguments. 


A major argument that we would hear from the people on the pro-slavery side was the argument of the economy and how it would fail if the United States were to get rid of slavery. They argues that since the south was so heavily dependent on cash crops as their form of incoming money, that is they got ready if slavery they wouldn't be able to keep up their economy because they wouldn't be able to produce as much as they used to. 

Also,  another major argument for the pro-slavery group was the idea that if they got rid of slavery the United Sates would fall apart due to a race war. They believed this because they thought that "blacks are as inferior as children" and "black and white people could never live together....they would form two separate unions. 

Although these sounded like two very strong arguments, the anti-slavery group didn't give up without a fight. 


A major argument for the anti-slavery group was the idea that, the very foundation of slavery goes against "the great laws of liberty". they believed that slavery goes against everything that this union has been built up on because even though they aren't white, they are still people and the constitution give liberty to "all"

Also, the anti-slavery group would continuously go back on the fact that this land cannot be the land of the free if not everyone is free. America was thought to be the land of the free where everybody could come to for new beginnings and a fresh but, that dream can't be a reality if they still have enslaved people. 

As you can see, there are two parts of the argument who both have pretty strong arguments. But at the end of the day we know what happened in history. This was just a good learning experience and chance to get to see what things would have been said back in those days.

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