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5. Essay Question:
Many of our early
Presidents were
slave holders.
Should we deny
them honor as
“Founding Fathers”?
OR
Should Thomas
Jefferson come off
the Nickel?
Argue Yes or No
6. D-Tag
Define the question
Turn the question into a
statement
Answer the question
Give examples to
support your point of
view
7. Define The Question
Since he was a
slaveholder, should
Thomas Jefferson’s
image come off the
Nickel?
Ask any kind of
question you want
Remember, many
early founders were
slaveholders
8. Slaveholding presidents:
Following is the number of slaves each of the 12 slaveholding
presidents owned. (CAPS indicate the president owned slaves
while serving as the chief executive):
- GEORGE WASHINGTON (between 250-350
slaves)
- THOMAS JEFFERSON (about 200)
- JAMES MADISON (more than 100)
- JAMES MONROE (about 75)
- ANDREW JACKSON (fewer than 200)
- Martin Van Buren (one)
- William Henry Harrison (eleven)
- JOHN TYLER (about 70)
- JAMES POLK (about 25)
- ZACHARY TAYLOR (fewer than 150)
- Andrew Johnson (probably eight)
- Ulysses S. Grant (probably five)
9. Phillis Wheatley
1753 – December
5, 1784
The first published
African American poet
Wrote her first poems as
a slave
Kidnapped in Africa in
1761
10. Phillis Wheatley
Emancipated (Freed) in
1773
Took her name from the
Wheatley family that
purchased her and the
Phillis, the slave ship
that brought her to
America
11. Phillis Wheatley
Known and read
by people like
George
Washington and
John Hancock
Died at 31 from
childbirth
12. "On being brought from Africa to
America"
Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour
too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
"Their colour is a diabolic dye."
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as
Cain,
May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.´
13.
14. Class work:
Reflect on Phillis
Wheatley
What did she
mean when she
said “Twas
mercy brought
me from my
Pagan land”?
