Summarize your article and then answer the reading questions.
1. What do you think about Kennedy's description of slave life? Is it accurate? How does it compare to other accounts you have read?
2. Although Swallow Barn is a novel, it reveals, what Kennedy thought about African Americans. Kennedy uses these views to justify slavery. What are these views?
3. How does Kennedy jsutify slavery? How can we use novels and works of fiction to elaborate our historial perspective?
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Summary:
ResponderEliminarIn this story it tells us about a slaveowner who treated his slaves really well. How it is necessary for owners to treat their slaves with respect so that they're not as likely to runaway.
Meriwether (the good slave owner) regularly visits his slaves to better acustom them. He even gave one of his slaves a horse for christmas.
Kennedy, the author of the story, doesnt tell in his story all the hardships that the slave has to go through and the poverty they live in.
1.)He makes it seem better than it really is.
2.)That slaves arent treated very badly so its justified.
3.)He makes it seem as if the slaves are treated very well but thats not always the case.
-Javier (the one above)
ResponderEliminarI feel this article is really unjust and unfair because the man who wrote this does not give a good description of what really goes on. 1 in 100 slave owners was probably good to his slaves, but just that 1 slave owner does not justify the act of having slaves at all.
ResponderEliminar-Sammy Mohney
Now i know that not all the slave owners were cruel to their slaves...but i dont agree with slavery even if the owners are nice to the slaves.
ResponderEliminarJharid Boosamra
Summary:
ResponderEliminarThis shows the life of a slave through Kennedy's eyes. Kennedy visits different slave "camps" and shows that the slaves are happy because the owner gives a present (or the piece for a slave's saddle) to his slave to help him out. Also, Kennedy uses this to varify slavery.
1) I thought that the description of slave life was off because he leaned to see what slave owners saw, rather than what the slaves felt.
2) That the people got what they needed and were able to sustain a happy lifestyle while working for the owners.
3) The old know their manners and how to act properly and the younger slaves have a sense of modern fashion.
-Devan Jones
javier for your first question i think whata you saif is very true. becuse he is for it he convinces you that slavery looks good
ResponderEliminar~ashley
i think that this story might've been either A, inaccurate or B, a little overexaggerated. but i do belive that if this is true that even though they are being treated well they are still being referred to as property which isn't right
ResponderEliminarWhitney Burney
This is total bunk. obviously if they were considered a slave they were still not treated with the upmost respect and were still looked down upon. just because the owner gave on guy a horse for christmas, doesn't mean that he didn't have to work or do hard labour.
ResponderEliminar-Roya
i agree with you sammy when you say that the 1 out of 100 does NOT justify the use of slavery. it's a great thing that this one guy treated his slaves well, however it is still forced bondage and is not justifiable under any circumstance.
ResponderEliminar-joanna