Primary Sources

Read each of the attached primary sources. Each source contains a different antislavery argument. While you read these sources, keep in mind the secondary source information and the biographical information. Pick two or three of the primary sources provided and write a one page response which compares their arguments. Also, be sure to include contextual information from the secondary sources. Have fun!

"Professor Hedrick's Defence," <em>North Carolina Standard</em>, October 4, 1856

Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America, Written in Boston, State of Massachusetts, September 28, 1829

Inquiry into the Causes Which Have Retarded the Accumulation of Wealth and Increase of Population in the Southern States: in Which the Question of Slavery is Considered in a Politico-Economical Point of View. By a Carolinian, 1846

<em>A Journey in the Back Country</em>, 1860

<em>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself</em>, 1861

An Address to the People of North Carolina on the Evils of Slavery by the Friends of Libersty and Equality, 1830

Primary Sources

North Carolinians and the "Peculiar Institution"