John C Calhoun Slavery Quotes
John C Calhoun Slavery Quotes. Calhoun Trust, Country, Party John C. "I told Calhoun I could not see things in the same light." And as he later reflected on the day's discussion, he realized how thoroughly he disagreed with nearly everything Calhoun and the other Southerners said by way of defense of slavery. "It is, in truth, all perverted sentiment—mistaking labor for slavery, and dominion for freedom.
What you find below is both a collection of quotes from this work that I found insightful, and also my comments, clarifications. I must freely upon the subject, for the honor and interests of those I represent are involved. When reading A Disquisition on Government, I found various points of contention with Calhoun, and as such, choose to spell out these points of disagreements by placing Post-it notes on various pages.
Washington Postal Scene by Bill McAllister.
This "scholar" knew what he had been taught, that State rights was something invented out of the air by John C.
Calhoun in the cause of slavery. Calhoun I am a Southern man and a slaveholder. Sharing the belief, almost as ubiquitous as it was wrong-headed, that white and black could not live freely together, he subscribed to the increasingly widespread view among slaveholders that slavery in the South was a neo-feudal, beneficent institution.
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