US HISTORY, December 2

⬜ Entry Task: Give an example when WORDS can be considered dangerous.

⬜ Announcements:◼ Test – next WEDNESDAY (I will have a study

guide for you tomorrow)

◼ Not here last Wednesday AND yesterday? Make sure Chilson gives you the assignment on Civil Disobedience

SOAPSTONE⬜ SPEAKER

⬜ OCCASION

⬜ AUDIENCE

⬜ PURPOSE

⬜ SUBJECT

⬜ TONE

David Walker⬜ Author of what was described as, "for a brief and terrifying

moment. . ., the most notorious document in America."⬜ Born to a free African American

woman in North Carolina⬜ He witnessed cruelty towards slaves,

particularly runaways

⬜ By 1825, he settled in Boston, Massachusetts in a thriving black community – owned a clothing store - ANTI-SLAVERY movement was moderate and cautious, but not Walker

⬜ He wrote for “Freedom’s Journal”⬜ Died at age 33 in 1830 (consumption or murder?)⬜ Edwin Walker – 1866 – 1st African American elected

to Massachusetts legislature

But in Particular and very Expressly to those of the United States of America

". . .they want us for their slaves, and think nothing of murdering us. . . and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty."

EXAMPLE: “fighting” words

At your table – review/reread (parts of) the document

⬜ READER - Someone who can reread parts of document

⬜ FACILITATOR – Makes sure that all people in the group participate

⬜ RECORDER – writes down important “fighting” words/phrases

⬜ REPORTER – be ready to report out to the rest of the class

⬜ 1-2 CHECKER/S – checks for accuracy of ideas - looks up definitions in dictionary

Predict: what was the reaction?

⬜ By fellow free African Americans?

⬜ By slaves?

⬜ By abolitionists (people who want to abolish slavery)?

⬜ By slave holders?

Nat Turner’s Rebellion - 1831

⬜ At least 56 slaveowners are killed in this slave rebellion, led by Nat Turner (joined by about 40 other slaves)

North Carolina LawAN ACT TO PREVENT ALL PERSONS FROM TEACHING SLAVES

TO READ OR WRITE...Whereas the teaching of slaves to read and write, has a tendency to excite dis-satisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion, to the manifest injury of the citizens of this State: Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That any free person, who shall hereafter teach, or attempt to teach, any slave within the State to read or write… or shall give or sell to such slave or slaves any books or pamphlets, shall be liable to indictment in any court…and upon conviction, shall…be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned; and if a free person of color, shall be fined, imprisoned, or whipped… not exceeding thirty nine lashes, nor less than twenty lashes. II. Be it further enacted, That if any slave shall hereafter teach, or attempt to teach, any other slave to read or write… [he or she] shall be sentenced to receive thirty nine lashes on his or her bare back. 

Speaker:What is this person’s perspective?

Henry DavidThoreau

Similarities? David Walker

Occasion:what is the context of this writing?

Audience

Purpose

Subject

TONE:What is the speaker’s character/attitude? Strategy /approach?

Impact/reaction (immediate and/or gradual)?

QUOTES

⬜ Purple paper - which quote is the BEST support for the information you put on the chart for Thoreau?

⬜ Yellow paper - for Walker?

MOST compelling LEAST compelling

Where is David Walker on this spectrum?

terrorist revolutionary civil disobedient

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Target ordinary Target police & Disobey unjust

people; military forces; laws, not all laws;

Violence seen Non-violent & Non-violence

as necessary violent means necessary

Covert action; Covert action; Open action;

Avoid punishment Avoid capture Accept penalties

⬜ There was a conspiracy of silence on the slavery issue. And one of the first things abolitionists had to do was put the issue on the table in a way that it couldn't be ignored. Or as Wendell Phillips said, our enemy is not the slaveowner only, it's also the person of good will who simply doesn't want to talk about slavery. . . .Eric Foner, historian

Exit Ticket: 1-3 sentences

⬜ Was Georgia “correct” in putting a price on DAVID WALKER’s head? ◼ In other words, was David Walker guilty of

sedition (words that intentionally cause insurrection/rebellion)?