St. John's College Advantage Assignment # 2

St. John’s College Advantage Assignment # 2

Slavery

Click on the link below and read the following four documents:

1. William Lloyd Garrison, “On the Constitution and the Union” (1832)

2. John C. Calhoun, “Slavery a Positive Good” (1837)

3. George Fitzhugh, “The Universal Law of Slavery” (1857)

4. Abraham Lincoln, “Annual Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society” (1859)

Documents 

Using the documents, your text, your knowledge of history, and outside sources, create a fictional debate between a northern abolitionist and a southern plantation owner. The debate should include economic, moral, political, and social rationale. It should follow a Lincoln-Douglas debate format and consist of an opening argument by the abolitionist, a response by the plantation owner, a rebuttal by the abolitionist, and a rebuttal by the plantation owner.

The assignment should be double spaced, and it should be at least three pages. It is due by Wednesday, April 22^nd.

*** Any students in the College Advantage Program who would like to partner up and do the assignment as an iMovie should see Mr. Anselmo to discuss specifics. Partners can be from two different classes and even have two different teachers. They just both need to be part of College Advantage.