In that instrument I hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but,interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT.
He's right beyond his years and the fight to include people within the Constitution starts with the very document itself.
Americans! your republican politics, notless than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, yoursuperior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (asembodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate theenslavement of three millions of your countrymen.
Still extremely relevant. Speaks to the divide that is still felt today between people. 175 years ago is not as long as people may make it seem, it is only the difference of three people.
By an act of the American Congress, not yet two years old, slavery has been nationalized in its mosthorrible and revolting form. By that act, Mason & Dixon’s line has been obliterated; New York hasbecome as Virginia; and the power to hold, hunt, and sell men, women, and children as slaves remainsno longer a mere state institution, but is now an institution of the whole United States. The power isco-extensive with the Star-Spangled Banner and American Christianity. Where these go, may also gothe merciless slave-hunter.
Extremely aware of his audience and how to sell the very real idea of how horrible slavery is and how pervasive it is to the American image. Two things to this audience are holy, and attaching the stain of slavery to it after detailing horrific acts so vividly creates a vile feeling in the whole.
Tell me citizens,WHERE, under the sun, you can witness a spectacle more fiendish and shocking. Yet this is but a glanceat the American slave-trade, as it exists, at this moment, in the ruling part of the United States.
Rhetorical, strong, sturdy.
For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentleshower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nationmust be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must bestartled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must beproclaimed and denounced.
Still relevant to today. Wow.
I will, in the nameof humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitutionand the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, withall the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shameof America! "I will not equivocate; I will not excuse;" I will use the severest language I can command;and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, orwho is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be right and jus
There it is, he understands both the true righteousness of his words and his ability to craft them. Awe-inspiring, powerful, and knowing.
Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I,or those I represent, to do with your national independence?
Rhetorical and powerful statement guiding the conversation along.
The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yetI cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration.
Genuinely well-said, surmising his position as a person born in bondage while being able to recognize the revolutionary actions of great minds before him. Clearly setting the argument that the revolution was only half-complete, which is true.
I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of yournation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it.
Summarizing his thoughts on the Colonies and their shaping of national identity by directly acknowledging the weight of the Declaration of Independence.
This home government, you know, although a considerable distance from your home,did, in the exercise of its parental prerogatives, impose upon its colonial children, such restraints,burdens and limitations, as, in its mature judgment, it deemed wise, right and proper.
Setting up the stakes; upcoming argument that the feeling is much the same but higher for the slave.
The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, fromwhich I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to theformer, are by no means slight
The emotional stakes of speaking on the 4th of July
Intheheated contextofthisdebate,advocatesonbothsidesarequestioningfactualstatements,theaccuracyofwhichmatteredtofewhalfacenturyago.“Facts,”bothtrivialorprominentinrelativeisolation,arequestionedorheraldedbyeachcamp.
I think a simple answer is that "it's complicated." History is inclusive, not exclusive. This means that many people can have a legitimate claim to the same events and it is important to try and reference that. A true historical account should make you feel as though things are complicated, it is not conclusive.
Thatsuchrulesarenotthesameinalltimesandallplaceshasledmanyscholarstosuggestthatsomesocieties(non-Western,ofcourse)donot differentiatebetweenfictionandhistory.
Important to note as it does in part address the concerns of studying history. Most historians, while "accepting" a conventional narrative, acknowledge that it is likely contested and it is important to try and find anything that helps support the theories on the history suggested.
Withinthatviewpoint,historybecomesoneamongmanytypesofnarrativeswithnoparticularorceeexceptforitspretenseoftruth.?
Another point in support of the central theme, but I still cannot find agreement in this. History is a humanist discipline, it is not a science, and while it can be supported in science with archeological evidence, it will forever be our best guess at what happened and examined through our own biases.
WhatIhopetodoistoshowhowmuchroomthereistolookattheproductionofhistoryoutsideofthedichotomiesthatthesepositions suggest andreproduce.
Main goal of writing truly established, it is important to have definitions in order to make an argument.
WiththebattlecryofSan Jacinto,Houston’smenreversedformorethanacenturythevictory SantaAnnathoughthehadgainedinSanAntonio.
Important when considering the main narrative. This is the thesis; words do have meaning and they can reduce the effectiveness of the people they are pitted against.
Now,three yearsafterSantaAnnafirstgainedpowerinindependentMexico,afewEnglish-speakingsquatters occu-piedtheplace,refusingtosurrendertohissuperiorforce.LuckilyforSantaAnna,theSquatters wereoutnumbered—atmost189potentialfighters—andthestructureitselfwasweak.Thecon-questwouldbe easy,orsothoughtSantaAnna.
Essential part of setting the stage for the thesis.
These sights carry a double message. They show a suffering that is outra- geous, unjust, and should be repaired. They confirm that this is the sort of thing which happens in that place. The ubiquity of those photographs, and those horrors, cannot help but nourish belief in the inevitability of tragedy in the benighted or backward—that is, poor—parts of the world.
Important in terms of understanding where the author is coming from. I think that it is interesting, though, that this is something that I think has adjusted. Perhaps having a phone makes people feel as though their homes are a mess when it just shows what has always been happening in their local communities.
And television news, with its much larger audience and there- fore greater responsiveness to pressures from advertisers, operates under even stricter, for the most part self-policed constraints on what is “proper” to air.
Still relevant to the above comment I made, social media companies are tied to ad-revenue and being an advertising-safe space. Arguably, though, they are not as strict as policing their platforms for advertisers as they had been a decade earlier.
In the era of tele-controlled warfare against innumer- able enemies of American power, policies about what is to be seen and not seen by the public are still being worked out.
Extremely important in order to show where things have gone since then. Interestingly enough, I feel as though tech-companies are the new holders of what gets displayed to the public.
The terms for allowing the use of cameras at the front for nonmilitary purposes have become much stricter as war has become an activity prosecuted with increasingly exact optical devices for tracking the enemy.
In support of the above two paragraphs describing US military action in the Middle East.
Taken by an unknown Boer photographer ten days after the British defeat, which had cost the lives of thirteen hundred of their soldiers, it gives an intrusive view down a long shallow trench packed with unburied bodies. What is particularly aggressive about the image is the absence of a landscape.
Important example of being on the other side of the intent of the camera.
And the viewer is in the same position as the lackey behind the camera; the experience is sickening.
Supporting the opening paragraph, but first time that the argument is directly stated.
Its theological and legal un-derpinnings were already present, though not yet fully codified.Identifying the DoCD's origins is challenging—some scholarstrace it back to Constantine's Christian empire, as Cornel Westsuggests, while others locate its roots in the broader expansionof Christendom, as outlined in Basic Call to Consciousness(West 2008; Barreiro et al. 2005).
Yay! They mentioned what I had questioned!
These demarcationlines reflect the Treaty of Tordesillas (2018), which carved up theworld between Portugal and the Crown of Castile and Aragon(Spain), thus marking the domains for the eurochristian imag-ined right of possession and domination
I agree with this part, though; Good point and important to the overall structure of the paper.
European Monarchs, havingdepleted their coffers during the Crusades, shifted their colonialfocus to the Canary Islands (ca. 1436), where they testedconquest strategies: slaughtering or forcibly converting Indige-nous peoples, breaking promises of protection, and usingChristianization as a pretext for enslavement (Miller 2019;Miller et al. 2010).
Pre-text to described era of Christian Discovery. Important in order to understand the view of the following events.
Columbus' arrivalis often framed as the dawn of exploration, but in reality, itmarked the beginning of genocide, justified in the name of God.
In support of the thesis, showing directly the outline of the coming few pages. Also well-phrased.
he Doctrine of Discovery, or more accurately, the Doctrineof Christian Discovery (DoCD), has long served as a ligamentconnecting Christianity and colonization, not just in theAmericas but across Africa, Oceania, and beyond. Rooted in a15th‐century theological and legal framework, it justifiedenslavement, exploitation, and extraction (Newcomb 2008;Wolfchild 2015).
Central thesis of coming article.
Our gift was time and attention and care and red-stained fingers.Heart berries, indeed.
Tying in the central theme heavily here; Reciprocal gift giving between the land, her childhood, and her family. The appreciation for natural life and beauty runs deep and ties into family history and creation belief.
The pair of wool socks that I buy at the store,red and gray striped, are warm and cozy. I might feel grateful for thesheep that made the wool and the worker who ran the knitting ma-chine. I hope so. But I have no inherent obligation to those socks as acommodity, as private property. There is no bond beyond the politelyexchanged “thank yous” with the clerk. I have paid for them and ourreciprocity ended the minute I handed her the money. The exchangeends once parity has been established, an equal exchange.
The next step to the theme of this paper; That consumerism, or just plain old capital consumption and exchange is inferior to the natural exchange that can occur between people. This feels as though the transaction is a cold middleman between two distant people.
From the viewpoint of a private property economy, the “gift” isdeemed to be “free” because we obtain it free of charge, at no cost. Butin the gift economy, gifts are not free. The essence of the gift is that itcreates a set of relationships. The currency of a gift economy is, at itsroot, reciprocity. In Western thinking, private land is understood to bea “bundle of rights,” whereas in a gift economy property has a “bundleof responsibilities” attached.
Central critique of Western circulation of gifts and exchange.
Her final gifts, our most revered plants, grew from her body.The strawberry arose from her heart. In Potawatomi, the strawberry isode min, the heart berry. We recognize them as the leaders of the ber-ries, the first to bear fruit.
This is the large-picture aspect of the central theme of the story. A warm gift from a tragic story. Ties in with family story of poverty if decided to focus solely on that.
you don’t feel the warm feathers cool in your hand and know that a lifehas been given for yours, when there is no gratitude in return—thatfood may not satisfy. It may leave the spirit hungry while the belly isfull. Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam traywrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only chance atlife was a cramped cage. That is not a gift of life; it is a theft.
Well-put and thought-provoking ideas on the exchange of the natural world and people, with the real idea that people are unable to see the value in the exchange when they themselves are removed from it.
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