Discussion Post 1 and 2

Discussion Post 1: Lydia Maria Child 300 words

Lydia Maria Child presents a variety of arguments to her northern readership about slavery’s evils. Choose one of the arguments she makes as the focus for your post — what do you think this particular argument is trying to demonstrate about slavery, and what do you think it reveals about Americans’ understanding of slavery? In other words, why was this argument necessary?

Excerpts from Lydia Maria Child’s An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, 1833

Discussion Post 2: The Abolitionist Press Part 1 300 words

The Liberator was the leading newspaper of abolitionist movement, and William Lloyd Garrison was one of its most prominent voices. Write a post of about 300 words in which you give an overall description of the first two issues. What are the most significant aspects of this newspaper’s tone, delivery, and framing of key issues? How does it characterize the abolitionist movement and their opponents?

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