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Speech of United States Senator James Henry Hammon

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1. Bring two discussion questions about our readings
2. write a response to the readings –
This is NOT a summary but YOUR REACTION to the ideas expressed.
What did you find interesting? Troubling?
What did you think the author got right or wrong about their subject.
This is very free form, but you should use it as an opportunity to hone your writing skills. Your response should center on our texts.
This response should allow getting a sense of what you got out of the readings and what you would like to discuss. I encourage you to put texts we have read in a given week in dialogue with readings throughout the course. Feel free to ask clarifying/factual questions in addition to discussion questions. Here are examples of both types of questions:
Discussion question – this is a question without a clear, easily researched answer that will lead to open discussion and debate. It should be based in our texts and not overly general:
e.g.
What are the similarities and differences between Fordism and Stalinism?
How does reading Engels change the way that we see Smith?
Clarifying/Factual Question. Feel free to ask about anything that you would like more background information about. This is a question with a clear, empirical answer
e.g.
What was the constituent assembly?
Who is the silent majority”?

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#3 Discussion
I found the 1858 speech by United States senator, James Henry Hammond, interesting in that it highlights Southern power during the latter half of the 19th century. The senator believed that reliance on Southern products, especially cotton, by the North would cripple its manufacturing industries and force them to bow its demands for cessation from the United States of America. I was intrigued by the economic and political importance of cotton production in the South: the cash crop dominated most of the agricultural economy of the South and the region was confident that it could do without the northern states (Knoles, 2006). However, I was concerned by Hammond extolling slavery as an effective and necessary social system. His views on the “mudsill of society” as well as his comparison of the region’s “well-compensated” slaves in relation to the manual laborers of the North is disturbing.
Conversely, the slave narrative Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup was upsetting as it provid...
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