As one of the people that argued the Mann v. North Carolina case, there were two other groups that fought on pro-slavery and anti-salvery about acts enacted during the early 1800’s. Each group presented three different acts, and I chose to focus on the Pro-Slavery side to share what was going on in racist white American men and woman’s minds.
The first act that was talked about was the fugitive slave act which was two laws enacted in 1793 and 1850 pertaining the recapture of fleeing slaves. We even saw this act in the movie “Glory”, when Colonel Robert Gould Shaw threatened Trip that he would send him back to his owner if he did not listen to orders. I can imagine how scary it is knowing that one is free for a moment and to just have a white man or woman take that away from a person is unimaginable.
The second act enacted was the Missouri Compromise of 1820, that expanded new western territory. It was a large debate on whether Missouri would become a slave state and sparked a huge debate throughout the state and surrounding. But because Missouri had people that were pro slavery legislatures, Missouri ended up becoming a pro-slavery state.
The last slide in their presentation was not an act but actually a battle. It was the battle of Fort Sumter, South Carolina. It was the attack of the South Carolina Militia, Confederates, that fired on Fort Sumter. The SCM fired repeatedly on the Union and Fort Sumter was going up in flames from all the cannonballs, and the town burned to the ground. This was a very historic day in time because it was what started the Civil War.
The pro-slavery side of everything is not fun to talk about and horrific when you need to argue for them in class. But it’s these events and mindsets that educate us on what went wrong in our past and to fix them and have a brighter future, where we can all live free and equal.
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