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In your discussion post, describe one or two of Fitzhugh's points. Then discuss how the other two sources you read (make sure you note which sources you read) offer another perspective on slavery. Discuss which evidence describing the real experience of slavery do you find the most convincing and why?

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The Blessings of Slavery (1857) is briefly reacted to using textual evidence.

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In the first place, as you describe one or two of Fitzhugh's points, you might summarize how Fitzhugh advocates that all labor, not just African Americans, must be enslaved in order to divide the world into an "all slave or all free" dichotomy. Of course I disagree with his assertions as he ...

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