Thursday, January 13, 2022

Excellent & unbeknownst to me: Slavery and Abolitionism as Viewed by a Georgia Slave



After 200 years of digesting Enlightenment ideals of natural rights, and reciting a pledge that concludes with “liberty and justice for all,“ it is hard for us to realize there are circumstances when slavery could be considered a “positive good.” John C. Calhoun has lately been excoriated for taking this position. Yet in 1861 an educated Georgia slave named Harrison Berry wrote a book (while he was still a slave), Slavery and Abolitionism: As Viewed by a Georgia Slave, explaining why he and his fellow slaves preferred their enslaved life in the South to the “so-called” freedom offered by the North. It was a scathing critique of the hypocrisy of Northern abolitionism, and explains why the vast majority of slaves remained loyal to their South.

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2 comments:

  1. Many blacks moved to the North thinking the North would
    embrace them. Nothing could be further from the truth.
    The blacks had no place to live, no jobs, and were starving to
    death. Therefore, they returned to the South some seeking their
    previous overseers for help and security. Yea, the War of
    Northern Aggression destroyed many of their lives also.

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