Read the story, summarize it in one or two paragraphs and then answer the following questions:
1. How would Henry Watson's narrative have been used by abolitionists?
2. WHat do you think of the atrocities reported here? Do you think the story moved people into action?
3. Although the narrative is probably accurate, it is quite possibly written by northern abolitionists who are transcribing Watson's story. What evidence do you see of this? Does it diminish the impact of the story?
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Henry Watson was just a boy when is mother was taken away from him and sold to another man. Just being a boy he went into a mode of depression and sickness that some thought he would never recover from. When he got better a man came and took him away to another man that had bought him. There he helped around the house and was fed very little. later on he was then taken to a slave auction. He was the first child called up. He then burst into tears onstage because of the way people were talking about him. he was soon bought by a man that purchased slaves for the southern market. he was made to stay in a slave jail, which was enclosed by walls 16 feet high and consists of one room. When the slave numbers were completed he was mdade to march on foot all the way to tennesee. They then arrived at his farm where they were kept, and throughout the weeks they were purchased. The man who owned the farm would whip the slaves very severely or do other types of punishment if they displeased him in a way. He did this in the morning before the slave buyers came so they wouldn't see the cruel marks on the slaves left by him...
ResponderEliminar1. It would be used by them to display the cruelty that was bestowed upon the slave population and ot show the hardships of a boy of maybe 13 years old had to go through.
2. I think they are so cruel. To have a boy taken away from his mother, embarrased and in a way tortured beyong compare is almost disgusting. I feel this story moved people because it showed what many children and people had to go through in the slave trade.
3. He talks in a very 'educated" manner and back then slaves had no means of education and how to speak properly.
-Sammy Mohney
From what i've herd about this story it seems like a really good book. It seems very emotional and gives tells us how children were seperated from their parents
ResponderEliminar-Javier
sammy this story makes me very sad...the thing that got me the most is that the mother was taken away from the son.
ResponderEliminarJharid Boosamra
1. How would Henry Watson's narrative have been used by abolitionists?
ResponderEliminarIt would've shown the cruelty and the pain behind the idea of slavery.It would also give you an idea of why slavery should not be done. just think of how you would feel if you were put in these situations and how hurt you'd be if things such as this happened during a time in your life.
2. WHat do you think of the atrocities reported here? Do you think the story moved people into action?
Honestly I believe that this is one of the many stories where people were moved and inspired to get the government and laws into a better state then they were...basically in regards to slavery.
3. Although the narrative is probably accurate, it is quite possibly written by northern abolitionists who are transcribing Watson's story. What evidence do you see of this? Does it diminish the impact of the story?
It could possibly be written by someone in the north because the mannerism in which the narrator speaks is extremely popular and even in our books it says that even the slave masters started to adopt a certain way of speech because that was the way that the slaves spoke. It would definetly somewhat diminish the impact of the story because this could possibly mean that it was written to move more abolitionists to believe the same things that the north believes or this specific person. If it was written by a northern abolitionist it could've been exagegrated to munipulate the beliefs of southern abolitionists.
Whitney Burney
Sammy does the article say why he was so educated?
ResponderEliminar~ashley
Henry Watson was a slave. His mother was a slave cook. One day, he woke up in a different place, and saw his mother was gone. He became sick with sadness, but eventually recovered. A few months after recovering, a strange man on a horse rode up to the house Henry worked at. His slave master ordered him outside. The stranger told Henry to get on the horse behind him. He didn't know where he was going. He tried jumping off, but he was caught, put back on, and taken away to Fredericksburg. Henry was put in the possession of a man named Mr. Janer. Then, he was taken to Richmond, and eventually carried to an auction room. People were bidding on "used" slaves. If a slave had whip marks, it meant he was a bad slave, and would not get sold as easily. When Henry was not sold, he was taken to a temporary jail by a man named Denton. Henry was eventually set to walk to Tennessee with other slaves, and a man who would beat them with a paddle.
ResponderEliminar1. Abolitionists would have used this story to tell others how the slave market really worked, and how the people invovled in being sold had felt; what their story was basically. To convince others that the slaves that are being sold have feelings as well, and those should be considered as well.
2. I think it was horrible; the whole story, on how they had treated the slaves when selling them. Auctioning off another person as if they had been a mere object. Just taking a person away from their family, like it's no big deal, and just selling them to another person who might find them useful on their plantation or in their own home. Just awful. I think this story probably helped with bringing up how awful this practice is to light to people.
3. The evidence that a northern abolitionist had probably transcribed Watson's story is that when Watson mentions being sold in the slave market, it says he was sold in the 'southern' slave market.
-Ava and Lauren
I think this story shows how poorly the slaves were treated as long as it goes into more details. This may also show how dramatic the slave life is since it is from a young boy's view.
ResponderEliminar-Devan Jones
Henry Watson is the main character of this story. Henry was a young slave boy, when his mother got taken away from him. After she was taken he had no information about where she was taken? Who she was taken to? What was she doing there? Is she ok? And why was she taken in the first place? He had gotten sick because of this, or so it is believed. The slave master did not expect him to recover from it (Because he was extremely sick)... The salve woman who took care of him began to tell him information about his mother and where she was taken as far as she could remember. He was eventually also taken, but to an entirely different place, he tried to escape when he ws ordered to mount his horse but did not succeed. he was taken to be sold at a slave auction, After his march to Tennesee, He was eventually sold after several weeks. he was with a man named Mr. denton and if he displeased them in the least they would be whipped in the morning before the visitors came.
ResponderEliminarWhitney Burney
this is terrible. the fact that a person has to endure such torture is so hard to believe. i just don't get why people would do that to one another. i think that the owner who whipped them in the morning didn't really have a reason to do so, the marks would still be there by afternoon and would have already bruised so i really don't get why time would matter. this is so hard to believe that someone could just rip apart families, just like that and not have any second thoughts.
ResponderEliminar-Roya
i think this may be the best of the stories so far. i really like how the emotion shows through, even in the summary. it's a tragic story and must have brought back many terrible memories in the retelling. i'm thankful, in a way, that they were courageous enough to tell their stories, so that we can see the terrible things still alive in society today.
ResponderEliminar-joanna