hat stereotypes do these documents promote about African-Americans?

Pro-Slavery.

George Fitzhugh Advocates Slavery: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3141t.html

Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3106t.html

James Henry Hammond Advocates Slavery: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3439t.html

Excerpts from Edmund Ruffin’s “The Political Economy of Slavery”: http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/filmmore/ps_ruffin.html

Abolitionists:
David Walker’s Appeal: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931t.html

Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

The American Antislavery Society: Declarations of Sentiments: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abeswlgct.html

Questions:

1. What stereotypes do these documents promote about African-Americans?

2. How do these men justify slavery? Or what points do they make about the need to abolish slavery? Should the emancipated slaves remain “on-soil,” that is, in the United States?

3. How do these men envision civilized society and slavery’s place in it? What remarks do the abolitionists make about the conditions under which the slaves worked and lived? The pro-slavery writers?

4. What are your impressions about the attitudes these men had about slavery, whether they were slavery proponents or abolitionists?

5. In what ways are the arguments of these men reflective of racial prejudice?

Format:

Write a two page essay between 500 and 750 words that addresses the focus questions.