Video Reaction

 Video Reaction 

During class, we watch multiple video presentations that were put together by my fellow class mates.  The videos were directly related to the cases and debates that our class talked about.  In these videos presentations, it talked about different periods, life styles, and places were slavery took place.

-John Calhoun

The first video we watched talked about someone named John Calhoun: Calhoun was very pro Slavery during this time.  He famously said that "Slavery was positive good."  This might now seem outrageous to say, but it was about the same ideology the south had during this time period.  What makes Calhoun stand out as a pro slavery activist is that he believed it was necessary to have.

Next two videos talked about what it was like during the Antebellum slave period and the day to day life for the slaves. Slaves where treated like animals rather then humans, they would work all day with only a few hours to rest.  Aside from the labor, there clothes and shelter were limited, most of the time only allowing one blanket in the winter. While slaves during this time faced many enduring things, the people that would auction off the slaves most of the time didn't want them to be with there family's or couldn't afford it.  Ripping them away from one another, most of the time to never seeing each other again. To put it into todays number, slaves were about $180,000, making buying a family very expensive.

The last video talked about the British abolition of slavery.  At this time, the slaves that would escape bondage and try to go to England, only to be arrested or forcibly removed to another country.  After the Somerset v. Stewart case in 1772, the slave trade act made it so slaves wouldn't have to endure this hard ship.  Later in 1833, the slavery abolition act made it so slavery was illegal in all of England.