Media Construction
Of Social Justice
PowerPoint Slide Show, Unit 1,
Lesson 1
Abolition of Slavery
NARRATIVE
OF THE
LIFE
OF
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
AN
AMERICAN SLAVE
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
WHIPPING OF OLD BARNEY
BOSTON
PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-SLAVERY OFFICE
1845
Excerpt from Freedom’s Journal opening editorial:
“We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have
others spoken for us. Too long has the publick been
deceived by misrepresentations, in things which
concern us dearly, though in the estimation of some
mere trifles; for though there are many in society who
exercise towards us benevolent feelings; still (with
sorrow we confess it) there are others who make it
their business to enlarge upon the least trifle which
tends to the discredit of any person of colour; and
pronounce anathemas and denounce our whole body
for the misconduct of this guilty one.”
First result in Google image search
for “the abolition of slavery,” 10/5/2009
Sign - Horse market
Flag - Liberty
Slaves, Horses & Other
Cattle To Be Sold
The Scenes which the above Plate is designed to represent are – Fig. 1 a Mother
intreating for the lives of her children. 2- Mr. Travis, cruelly murdered by his own Slaves.
3. Mr. Barrow who bravely defended himself until his wife escaped. 4. A comp.[any] of
mounted Dragoons (cavalry) in pursuit of the Blacks.
Thou shalt not deliver unto the master his
servant which has escaped from his master
unto thee. He shall dwell with thee. Even
among you in that place which he shall
choose in one of thy gates where it liketh
him best. Thou shalt not oppress him.
We hold that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable
rights, that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Four Hundred Years of American History
First published in 1872
New Eclectic History of the United States
Published in 1890
Your friend,
John Brown
“This singular, conscientious, determined man who
under no circumstances ever swerved from what he
thought was right, was a native of Connecticut, and
descended from Peter Brown, a humble Pilgrim on
the Mayflower.”
John Brown at Harper’s
--------------------------------------------------------------Ferry of Kansas, invaded the
“The excitement became greater when John Brown, formerly
state of Virginia, with a party of about twenty men for the purpose of freeing slaves…
Though this rash movement had no support, the news of it excited a rage of resentment
throughout the South, where it was considered as a expression of universal Northern
feeling.”
On To Liberty
“Tisn’t he who has stood and looked on
that can tell you what slavery is—tis he who
has endured.” John Little, fugitive slave,
Sanctuary: The Spirit of Harriet Tubman