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?       Although Swallow Barn is a novel, it reveals what Kennedy thought about African Americans

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 justify slavery? How can we use novels and works of fiction to elaborate our historical perspective?

6-3 A Slave Tells of His Sale at Auction, 1848

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 to 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?