Class Activity

Today in class we played the roles of people that were anti slavery as well as pro slavery figures. I played Andrew Jackson who owned around 160 slaves and looked over an enormous plantation. We also heard about people like Abraham Lincoln who was very against slavery but also said pro slavery statements. People thought that he said those things as a way to get elected into office. We also learned about a man named Zephaniah Kingsley who was married to four slave woman and had four children with the one that he emancipated from slavery. He was pro slavery but he argued both sides because he did not want his children to grow up as slaves. Eventually he ended up moving them to Haiti so they could be free from slavery. I enjoyed learning about the different sides that people were apart of.