Homework answers / question archive / After reading chapter 11 of Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty, review the following primary source documents: Bennet Barrow's Rules of Highland Plantation and excerpts from his diary (1838-1841); Joseph Taper's letter to Joseph Long (1840); the article "Slavery and the Bible" in DeBow's Review (1850); Frederick Douglass' July 1852 speech; and George Fitzhugh's Sociology for the South (1854)

After reading chapter 11 of Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty, review the following primary source documents: Bennet Barrow's Rules of Highland Plantation and excerpts from his diary (1838-1841); Joseph Taper's letter to Joseph Long (1840); the article "Slavery and the Bible" in DeBow's Review (1850); Frederick Douglass' July 1852 speech; and George Fitzhugh's Sociology for the South (1854)

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After reading chapter 11 of Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty, review the following primary source documents: Bennet Barrow's Rules of Highland Plantation and excerpts from his diary (1838-1841); Joseph Taper's letter to Joseph Long (1840); the article "Slavery and the Bible" in DeBow's Review (1850); Frederick Douglass' July 1852 speech; and George Fitzhugh's Sociology for the South (1854).

Now address the questions below. Note that you may have to draw on Foner's chapter to explain your answers.

1. How do some of these authors use religion (specifically Christianity) to make arguments either for or against slavery?
2. Taper commented on his son's education. Why would he link education with freedom?
3. Consider how the proslavery authors formulated their arguments. Identify some common themes that you located in these proslavery sources.
4. Why, in your opinion, would these common themes surface in proslavery documents?
5. Review Barrow's Rules and his diary entries. After reading Barrow's diary passages, it is evident that a certain number of enslaved persons refused to adhere to his rules. What does the strictness of the rules say about the extent of his control over them?