Arguments for and Against Slavery

To improve or to make better

• Amelioration

• Manumission

To be granted or released from slavery

• Amelioration

• Manumission

Identify arguments for slavery.

• Slavery was in the Bible

• Slaves are needed to work the cotton and sugar plantations

• All of the above

Arguments against Slavery.

• No man should own human beings

• Slavery is wrong

• All of the above

After amelioration became law, state ONE thing slaves were allowed to do.

• To testify in the courts

• Own plantation

• None of the above

In which year amelioration become law

• 1807

• 1823

Amelioration failed because many slave owners continued to mistreat their slaves, TRUE OR FALSE?

• TRUE

• FALSE

Identify how slaves were granted manumission

• They were freed as a reward for ensuring that other slaves did not rebel

• They were given paid word and were able to buy their freedom

• All of the above

• None of the above