1. Antebellum Era America

2.   Get in a group of 4  List some claims made by the author  Have one member of your group list the claims on a sheet of paper James Hammond’s Excerpts to an English Abolitionist

3.   Using the claims you have come up with, list three reasons derived from the claims used to justify slavery James Hammond’s Excerpts to an English Abolitionist

4.   THIS IS NOT AN ATTEMPT TO COMPARE THE PHYSICAL AND OVERT TYRANNY FELT BY BLACKS WITH THE MOSTLY PSYCHOLOGICAL AND LARGELY COVERT PRESSURE SLAVERY PLACED ON WHITES. IT IS MEANT TO SHOW THAT SLAVERY AFFECTED THE WHOLE SOCIETY. MOST WHITES DID NOT OWN SLAVES, BUT FEAR AND RACISM LED THEM TO TOLERATE AND SUSTAIN SLAVERY Alabama Slave Codes of 1852