Slavery a Positive Good by Kurt Swygert https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io John C. Calhoun/ SC History en-us 2017-03-17 12:27:41 UTC 2017-03-17 20:38:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Slavery a Positive Good https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160775632
Ke'Shawn Beaty

I believe slavery is wrong. No matter if anybody says differently about it. John Calhoun wasn't out there in the fields working. He wasn't out there getting whipped. He doesn't know how it feels to be in an African American's footsteps. Until he knows how it feels to actually be a slave, he shouldn't speak about slavery being good. ]]> 2017-03-17 12:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160775632 Preston https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160776369 I feel that no matter anybody says it will forever be wrong.Even if somebody that help build SC that still doesn't make it right.Overall slavery brings up a lot of feelings both ways.But nobody deserve to be owned.  ]]> 2017-03-17 12:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160776369 Isaiah Block 1 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777024 As obvious as it is no form of slavery is correct. and to those ignorant people out there working a job is not slavery because you have agreed to the amount of pay you receive and to do what job you have. But anyway back to the main point Calhoun makes a okish point but however his methods and thinking is still wrong and the world will never accept it no matter how right he thinks he is.]]> 2017-03-17 12:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777024 Slavery a Positive Good, Sociology Daniel https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777239 I feel like slavery is not what people want and it will never be right in the world even tho some people think that was good but it's not. When you can have people say things like that saying slavery is good that shows how many bad people we have in the world cause slavery was just wrong back in that time and the way i feel that makes me feel very upset about that cause people are people not i animals or even that that's people other people that was going through that people. are not suppose to go through that.   ]]> 2017-03-17 12:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777239 Khalil J. - 1st https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777421 Every person deserves rights to a decent life. It does not matter if slavery helps a few people. It is still wrong to do and a life no one deserves.]]> 2017-03-17 12:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777421 Xavier Sociology 1 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777447
  • I feel that is bad and some people have no choice but  to be slaved.I also think that people i really think that everyone is a slave in a way i dont know but the i still think it  is wrong and you should dont anything you dot wanna do.

    • ]]>     2017-03-17 12:58:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777447     Dorian Hutcherson 1st 10031213 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777539 In my opinion, slavery will always be wrong. No matter the race, slavery should never be an option. I disagree with John C. Calhoun because people should never be forcefully put to work. Slavery is very evil. Everyone is equal no matter the situation & nobody should feel less important than anyone else.]]> 2017-03-17 12:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777539 Mike Weathers Sociology 00016465 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777736 I think he don't know what he's talking about, because he wasn't on the fields. I feel assaulted that John C. Calhoun that he thinks slavery was good for blacks. He tried us like low class citizens and like we have no rights.
     ]]>     2017-03-17 13:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777736     Chanelle Singleton - Sociology 1 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777894 I honestly, truly believe slavery is wrong and inhumane. John C. Calhoun has his "good" reasons to why slavery would be/is good but all of that is still wrong. 
    No one and nothing can ever make me feel different about my opinion on slavery.]]>     2017-03-17 13:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160777894     Wynter W- Sociology 1 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160778158 In my opinion I don't feel Calhoun made a good point. Him along with other people in political control want to keep the divide between the two races. However It states in the article how hard it would be to go back in time to slavery, Slavery is just wrong and ignorant in every aspect and could never be a "positive Good"

    ]]>     2017-03-17 13:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160778158     April (1st) https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160778210 i really don't agree with him because slavery was not a good thing and it never will.his kinda rude for him to think that it was okay.]]> 2017-03-17 13:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160778210 Fiona 1st https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160779675 Ok, to be honest I didn't even read it because I knew it would just infuriate me. John C. Calhoun is a disgustingly racist miserable excuse for a human being  that was given the proper education to write a reasonable argument for the complete discrimination of anyone that didn't have white skin.  Sadly there are reincarnations of John C's hate, one being in the white house, but if  we unite and fight against the grotesque white males that still try to shove us into the lower class and "put us back where we came from"  they will never win. 

    ]]>     2017-03-17 13:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160779675     Jasmine 1st https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160779985 I feel as though slavery is wrong. John C. Calhoun may have had some good reasons for slavery but no one shouldn't have gone through that and it shouldn't have been put on just one race. families were forced to do work for other people without getting paid, families were separated and If it was the other way around John C. Calhoun wouldn't have liked it.]]> 2017-03-17 13:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160779985 Ajukwa (1st) https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160779993 To be honest I didn't even read it because I knew it would just infuriate me. John C. Calhoun is a disgustingly racist miserable excuse for a human being  that was given the proper

    WAZZUP GURT

    ]]>     2017-03-17 13:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160779993     Cameron 1st https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160780519 Slavery A Positive Good

    I would hope that to everyone slavery was a terrible thing I couldn’t imagine living in that time period and seeing people that are my friends now being slaves especially my girlfriend and best friends. There are people that still believe that slavery should be allowed and they are honestly bigots it's annoying that people still think that to this day. I’ve encountered multiple people who are racist like one time I was at a dairy cream and was sitting down with my parents when some old guy was saying that a black man shouldn't be working at the counter and he just annoyed like everyone there it was terrible. People were cruel back then and they are still cruel today it's disgusting and should not even be allowed but since free speech is a thing it still happens. I still couldn't imagine not having the friends that I have today if slavery was still a thing thank god it's not.

    ]]>     2017-03-17 13:09:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160780519     https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160781030 Dorian
    I honestly, truly believe slavery is wrong and inhumane. John C. Calhoun has his "good" reasons to why slavery would be/is good but all of that is still wrong. 

    ]]>     2017-03-17 13:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160781030     Toni 1st https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160782096 To be honest slavery is very , but I thin Calhoun had some really good points about slavery , but that was dude was very wrong. People were told to do things that they didn't want too . John C. Calhoun was just a bad person honestly .]]> 2017-03-17 13:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160782096 Marshall Jefferson 10014530 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160782140 Slavery can't be a positive good because it's a very bad description of racial discrimination and separation. Many people believe that slavery is good and many believe it's bad but in my opinion, it gives a negative impact on our society. We shouldn't be judged on our skin tone.]]> 2017-03-17 13:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160782140 Zariyah Toatley https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160784002 I feel that the use of slavery is dead not right. The act of it is selfish and ignorant. When in the article, when it said slavery was good I was amazed. By them saying that it meant that the act of over-working someone over there ability is right not wrong. ]]> 2017-03-17 13:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160784002 Chris K. Sociology 3rd https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160814893 I think it is unfair for Calhoun to speak on the behalf of the slaves and try to purport that they were okay with being enslaved. He didn't know what it was like to be a slave, as he was wealthy and high ranking in, not only Southern, but national society. Slaves did not want to be enslaved, and Calhoun was reaping the benefits of slavery his entire life. Slavery was morally wrong, and the slaves thought so too.]]> 2017-03-17 14:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160814893 Briana Herbert https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815264 I think that slavery is wrong. John C. he doesn't know what it's like to be a slave and get whipped and stuff. Until he knows and feels to actually be a slave he shouldn't be saying it's a good. ]]> 2017-03-17 14:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815264 Jerjuan 3rd period https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815432 I and feel and think that slavery will always be wrong. I cant' see how someone could make anybody work in the hot sun, and be all sore at the end of the day with no pay.  I think that my opinion on slavery will always be that slavery is not right.

    ]]>     2017-03-17 14:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815432     Ijen Ponds pd.3 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815452 I know for a fact that slavery is wrong .I don't believe in it at all.I hate the fact that there was even slavery.To me they should not have done that cause when they look back at it they can tell it was wrong.

    ]]>     2017-03-17 14:49:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815452     Tatyana Williams-3rd period https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815680 i believe that this article is bull crap, everyone should be able to have their freedom and become independent . speaking for myself and some people who agree with me Slavery should not exist at all !]]> 2017-03-17 14:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815680 Alex T. 3rd Period https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815683 I don't care about your color, ethnicity, religion, background, nothing of those sorts. Slavery of any kind under any circumstance is flat out wrong. Sure, there can be positivities when enslaving people, but no matter what, it will always be wrong. It's one of the most inhumane things to do to any living creature that walks the Earth. I find it appalling that there are people who still feel as if slavery is a good thing or that it should still exist. Their thought process must be jumbled in their tiny little brains because the thought of slavery? Terrible. You got me all the way bent around if you think i'd ever agree to such travesty.]]> 2017-03-17 14:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815683 Anthony C - Siociologoy 3rd In my opinion , John C. Calhoun is just a racist and he really didn't make a good point. I don't even understand how he think that slavery was okay https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815805 2017-03-17 14:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815805 Donasia Robertson 3rd period https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815898 I feel that in no way slavery is a good thing. Slavery is wrong in my opinion. I can not agree that slavery can be positive because I just do not feel as though it is. I always wonder what would the world be like if slavery never existed? ]]> 2017-03-17 14:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815898 I https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815953 2017-03-17 14:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815953 Bernard P 3rd https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815977 Slavery is always wrong regardless. People were taken away from their families to go work for someone else and take care of their land without pay or good treatment]]> 2017-03-17 14:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815977 Janae' G. 3rd https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815983 I feel that slavery is wrong. Nobody should be a slave that just wrong on so many levels. John Calhoun didn't feel their pain he wasn't getting whipped or have to be outside working in the fields with them. I'm pretty sure that if he was a slave he wouldn't want slavery. Slavery can't be positive. ]]> 2017-03-17 14:51:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160815983 Kenaia Graham 3rd https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160816111 I highly disagree with John C. Calhoun because slaves were tormented and beaten. He wasn't in the predicament as the slaves so therefore he can't speak for them. Being that he was a superior figure with great success, he was blinded of the pain and suffering.]]> 2017-03-17 14:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160816111 Jaylan Albany 3rd https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160816422 i felt that calhoun was not right withwhat he said in the article.I say that because of some of the vulgar things he said or like where he talked about extirpating the race.also in the article it seems to make african americans seem of lower status(being called like animals) when really we're equally human beings]]> 2017-03-17 14:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160816422 Nicholas Johnson(Period 3) https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160816483 2017-03-17 14:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160816483 Brianna S. : 3rd period https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160816657 While reading this article I am reminded of the hate that my ancestors faced due to men like John C. Calhoun. Throughout the entire article he believes that what he is saying has actual substance and in his wick mind is okay, and acceptable. He speaks from a ignorant mind-set therefore his idea of slavery is offensive, and wrong. No matter what your race is, you should feel offended by Calhoun's remarks. PERIOD. ]]> 2017-03-17 14:53:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160816657 NaLiyah Cunningham 3rd 00019467 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160816961  Slavery will forever be wrong. No human should be held captive, sold, and forced to work also nobody deserves to be owned . Slavery is always bad and make people fell like there worthless and that is not okay.  ]]> 2017-03-17 14:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160816961 Wyatt 3rd period 10020035 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160817521 I feel like Calhoun didn't make a good point on his explanation on why slavery is a good thing. I think his point couldn't have been good no matter how you put it. But that's in the mind of someone in the 21st century where things like that happening is frowned upon. Back then they saw black people as objects like your phone not an actual human being. ]]> 2017-03-17 14:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160817521 Ariana D. Ray https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160819415 I disagree cause I dont like slavery. Slavery is very disrespectful to the black race and John think its all good. He might be the founder of South Carolina but it is wrong. Blacks and mixed have suffered back in the day of rasicm. John is stupid for even writing that paper.]]> 2017-03-17 15:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160819415 King Muse 3rd https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160819590 I don't believe it is right for him to speak for slaves and tell them they were better off as slaves. I can see why he would THINK that though especially with the era he came up in and all. I don't think its right to TAKE someone from there home and tell them its better for them]]> 2017-03-17 15:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160819590 Gabrielle McKinzie 4th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160829492 Slavery will forever be wrong to me. No one should be working for no one in that way, shape, or form. People should have equal rights and no one should be treated differently than the next person. ]]> 2017-03-17 15:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160829492 Skye Hutchinson 4th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160829853 Slavery is not a "positive good". If anything slavery is a unacceptable thing to do to people.  People of ANY color should have equal rights.]]> 2017-03-17 15:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160829853 Ayanna Head (4th) https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160830004 Just from reading the title, I could tell that this story was going to be terrible because slavery is never used in a positive sense. I did not fully understand what I was reading, but certain parts stood out to me. Such as when John C. Calhoun mentioned that being a slave was a privilege for Africans. This severely upset me.]]> 2017-03-17 15:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160830004 Lisa Aul 4th 10020001 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160830176 It's very sad what they did to the slaves, they didn't deserved to get abused by these slave owners. They  had guards that made sure they weren't trying to escape. It hurt some of the slaves family because they were torn apart from their families. I hate it when blacks are treated with the right respect they deserved. Slavery is never a good thing.

    ]]>     2017-03-17 15:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160830176     Cedric Septs 4th period 10038401 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160830627 2017-03-17 15:39:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160830627 Shayla Williams 4th 00037106 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831291 Slavery will always be wrong in people eyes, because of how they treated people. I just believe that their shouldn't have been slavery to began with. It not right or it's not fair. ]]> 2017-03-17 15:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831291 Kaitlin Hart 10007544 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831314 I can't even think, about what slaves do any other people, who had to believe in the god of their own ways to describe, to observe for the government on how did they manage to take over, or to stand within the states.]]> 2017-03-17 15:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831314 Imani Board 4th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831365 I believe that this person wouldn't know what most African Americans go through or went through and wouldn't understand how they felt about slavery . He also wouldn't understand how much it was wrong.]]> 2017-03-17 15:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831365 Jasmine Syffus 4th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831521 I feel like slavery will forever be wrong no matter what people try to say. Like how could you think that working long hours with no pay and you getting beat is good? It really isn't my opinion on slavery is that it was it's always going to be wrong there isn't no "good" slavery.]]> 2017-03-17 15:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831521 Zahir Hunt 4th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831729 Now im not saying slavery is good but i scroll down this padlet and see everybody complaining but didnt really read the story. Most of yall think slavery is a just a thing of skin and talking bout the white people did this the white people did that, little do you know slavery is still going on till this day. WHERE you ask ?? right where it started AFRICA.]]> 2017-03-17 15:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831729 Makala Precia ; 4 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831780 2017-03-17 15:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160831780 Makala Precia; 4 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160832622 I feel like slavery is very harsh and inhumane. It will never be good and no one should ever be treated like that. I feel like it's a lot of people today that still agree with slavery like John C. Calhoun and it's sad.

    ]]>     2017-03-17 15:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160832622     Shyia Dessow 4th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160833610 This article talks about slavery. Slavery is not a good thing i don't care even if you are trying to make it seem like it's not slavery is slavery ]]> 2017-03-17 15:51:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160833610 Mohamed, Secka 00019035 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160833739 He believes when two races come together which have different origins, colors, and physical and intellectual characteristics , that slavery is good or a positive
     good. ]]>     2017-03-17 15:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160833739     Meleke Dennis 4th 10019907 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160833955 In my opinion]]> 2017-03-17 15:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160833955 Kenadi Carey 4th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160834096 Slavery is never good from the title this isn't a positive passage. Back then slavery was offal how they treated blacks back then. Slavery was never good it never helped blacks that's crazy to even think that that passage was even thought like that. To me it never helped blacks and it never solved the problem they were tortured,beaten, and used. ]]> 2017-03-17 15:53:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160834096 Marissa McCallum 4th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160834324 Slavery is wrong and the fact that John C. thought it was right says a lot about his character. Everyone should be equal and you should never force people to work for you in any situation. Slavery should never be considered a good thing.]]> 2017-03-17 15:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160834324 Mary Bracey 5th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160850290  "I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good a positive good." ... "I hold then, that there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other." ... 

    Calhoun said it on February 6, 1837, is voicing his opposition to sending the issue of abolition to a Senate committee for study, noting that "The subject is beyond the jurisdiction of Congress - they have no right to touch it in any shape or form, or to make it the subject of deliberation or discussion." The jurisdiction issue was so obvious that he did not deign to explain it. Had he felt the need of explanation, he would have simply referred to Article I, Sections 2 and 9, Article IV, Section 2, and Amendments IV, V, IX and X of the Constitution of the USA, all of which in one way or another guarantee the right to own slaves as a basic, fundamental right under the constitution. As Calhoun (and Abe Lincoln) well knew and as each repeated constantly throughout the antebellum period, abolition of slavery could be achieved only by state law or constitutional amendment and neither congress nor the president had any right or authority to address, let alone act upon, the matter as a matter of federal constitutional law. 

    As to why Calhoun determined slavery as a positive good, he touches upon the idea only superficially. His reasoning coincides with similar ideas expressed at various times by folks like Lincoln. He does not deal, in that speech, with the practical economical and social reasons why slavery had become a necessity not only in the south but also for the federal government and the northern economies that relied so heavily on southern goods for there very survival. By 1860, fully 75% of federal revenues were raised in the south, mostly by tariff and similar laws enacted by the northern controlled Congress. At the same time, 75% of federal spending occurred in the north. The federal government could not survive financially without the revenue raised from taxation of the southern cash crops. Because of the virtually non-existent labor pool in the south, those crops could not be sown, tended, harvested and gotten to market without a guaranteed work force. Due to the filthy, backbreaking nature of the work, the inhospitable climate and the nominal wages that could have been paid to a free workforce, enslaved labor was the only means by which the large tobacco, cotton, flax and rice plantations could survive. Free farmhands could not be counted on; they would have quit with little or no notice when some better opportunity presented itself, or when the work became too much and not worth the pittance they received for it, and the crops would have never been planted, or would have been neglected and would have rotted in the fields. Worse, as the crops rapidly wore out the soil, new fields could not have been cleared to replace those that had become unproductive. The plantations needed the slave to operate and the federal government and northern industrial, banking, financial and money interests needed the plantations and the southern cash cow to maintain their existence and their fortunes. That is why the abolitionists, vocal as they were, never represented anything even remotely approaching a majority. 

    The illegal and unconstitutional Confiscation Acts and the equally illegal and unconstitutional and redundant Emancipation Proclamation were not promulgated as moral, humanitarian civil rights measures. They were weapons of war. The ratification of Amendments XIII, XIV and XV were coerced after the war solely for the purpose of insuring the complete and total destruction of the CSA, the southern economy and the southern way of life so as to ensure that the south could not soon rise again. 

    Make no mistake: the southern states did not secede in order to protect the right own human chattel and the north did not fight to free the slaves. Abolition came about as a matter of political expedience and as a tool of war. For more on that issue, read the debates surrounding the passage of the Confiscation Acts. Very few outside the vocal cadre of outspoken abolitionists were concerned with the plight of those of African descent. 

    On the social side, no one in the north, forget the south, wanted an influx of uneducated, homeless, angry former slaves with no income, no means of support and no marketable job skills into their neighborhoods. Lincoln himself wanted to settle freed slaves in colonies to be established for the purpose in uninhabited areas of Texas and Missouri, on Caribbean islands or in Indian Territory. He did NOT want them settling in Washington DC or in Illinois especially, or in any other white region generally. 

    In the north, with its ever increasing influx of immigrants, freed slaves were not a welcome prospect. The immigrants, especially the Irish, were despised and equated with the Africans as a sub-species not capable of participating in government and not entitled to rights of citizenship or equal protection of law and due process. Calhoun did not voice such sentiments as loudly as did the northern intelligentsia, but he did not hide his opinion either. For more one that aspect of the issue, read particularly the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson or candidates of the Know Nothing Party (or its kindred parties: the movement was pervasive, especially in New England, New York and Pennsylvania, but it went by dozens of names - due to the secrecy of membership rolls, it is difficult to identify all of the true initiated Know Nothings, but their philosophy was widespread and their standard was taken up not only by the bastions of political and financial power, but by the hoi poloi as well. After the spate of anti-Irish and anti-Catholic riots, lynchings and burnings of homes, churches and businesses of the Catholics and Irish during the 1830's and 1840's, the abolition movement (in part, at least) turned the focus from those sub-humans and socially and politically undesirable inferior species to those of African heritage. The immigrants were already too much competition for the scarce jobs that were available and due to their sheer numbers, the vast labor pool guaranteed that working conditions would remain deplorable and wages would remain obscenely low. An influx of millions of freed slaves could only exacerbate the already horrendous situation. The "obviously superior" Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic majority of "real Americans" would not tolerated the added competition threatened by the migration of those "African animals" into their realms, and slavery was the only defense against such an invasion. 

    While the Irish were merely wage slaves, the Africans, being of a different race and easily identifiable because of physical characteristics and features, could be enslaved by chains. The common conventional wisdom of the era was that the Africans were sub-human and should be treated as such. Read Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on that topic, as well as the treatises of any number of other academicians of the era. From pulpits in the north and south alike (as well as in Europe) those enlightened men of the cloth made it clear that the African race was put on earth by God to serve as the beast of burden of the white race and Man had no right to question, let alone interfere with, God's will. 

    At one time or another, Calhoun voiced all of these ideas, as did many of his counterparts in the north. The quote of interest to you was uttered by Calhoun when he forewarned of the inherent danger of allowing Congress to consider an issue over which it had no right, authority or jurisdiction, and he warned that the concession of allowing such a debate, even in committee, could only exacerbate the growing sentiment for secession. His concern was not the abolition of slavery - he knew that Congress could not do that. His concern was the continuing and ever increasing encroachment of the federal government into areas that, as a matter of basic and fundamental constitutional law, were expressly reserved onto the states. He predicted as early as 1837 that if such encroachments continued unabated: 

    "It is impossible under the deadly hatred which must spring up between the two great nations, if the present causes are permitted to operate unchecked, that we should continue under the same political system. The conflicting elements would burst the Union asunder, powerful as are the links which hold it together. Abolition and the Union cannot coexist. As the friend of the Union I openly proclaim it and the sooner it is known the better. The former may now be controlled, but in a short time it will be beyond the power of man to arrest the course of events. We of the South will not, cannot, surrender our institutions." 

    You can find the actual text of the speech at a number of sources by simply searching "John C Calhoun slavery a positive good", something that either did not occur to you or that you were too lazy to try. You have the most powerful research tool ever conceived by man right there at your fingertips. Learn to use it.


    ]]>     2017-03-17 17:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160850290     Ayanna Kimble 4th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160851212 Slavery is NOT a good thing and if you feel like it is, then that's sick. All types of slavery is a horrible and an unacceptable thing to do to people. EVERYONE should have the same amount of equal rights.]]> 2017-03-17 17:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160851212 Similan C. - US History https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160853232 I don't think that slavery is a good thing. He may have good facts to opposed that but depends on who point of view you are looking at. Slavery to the white race it's good but not for the black race. ]]> 2017-03-17 17:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160853232 Darius Gibson https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160855017 Ok, to be honest I didn't even read it because I knew it would just infuriate me. John C. Calhoun is a disgustingly racist miserable excuse for a human being  that was given the proper education to write a reasonable argument for the complete discrimination of anyone that didn't have white skin.  Sadly there are reincarnations of John C's hate, one being in the white house, but if  we unite and fight against the grotesque white males that still try to shove us into the lower class and "put us back where we came from"  they will never win.]]> 2017-03-17 17:19:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160855017 Jykobi Dixon (5th) https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160855763 I think this story was good but it made this guy sound like he  was evil or something


    ]]>     2017-03-17 17:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160855763     DaVion Easter https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160856027 I feel like Calhoun didn't make a good point on his explanation on why slavery was a good thing. I think his point couldn't have been good no matter how you put it. But that's in the mind of someone in the 21st century where things like that happening is frowned upon. Back then they saw black people as objects like your phone not an actual human being]]> 2017-03-17 17:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160856027 brandon jackson https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160858556 i really don't agree with him because slavery was not a good thing and it never will.his kinda rude for him to think that it was okay.]]> 2017-03-17 17:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160858556 Cameron P https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160858776 Slavery is always wrong regardless. People were taken away from their families to go work for someone else and take care of their land without pay or good treatment]]> 2017-03-17 17:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160858776 Phyllip Marbut 6th period 00030190 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160865461 I understand how he thought that slavery was good because it has got us to were we are now but it has caused a lot of bad things to our country. Slavery has made people hate each other for who they are and it caused riots, fight and even death. Slavery was not a good thing, the way people would treat the slaves were unnecessary ]]> 2017-03-17 17:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160865461 Chanice Outing https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160866022 It doesn't matter; slavery will always be wrong. You're forcing people into an unfair and harsh lifestyle, only to benefit yourself]]> 2017-03-17 18:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160866022 Quentin Frost https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867011 I think he wouldnt understand what African Americans go through on a daily bases so  he wouldnt know or understand. Slavery is bad . Slavery is the worst possible thing that ever happened to humanity

    ]]>     2017-03-17 18:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867011     Ky´Asia Vereen 00034878 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867154 I think that ]]> 2017-03-17 18:05:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867154 jayln Dunbar https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867184 i feel like i don´t want to go to clemson because that was not right.Slavery is not good and to build it on slave plantion is wrong]]> 2017-03-17 18:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867184 Lawrence Mainer (6th Period) https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867347 I think slavery is wrong in anyway shape or form. It isn't good that one of the founding fathers who thought slavery was a positive is bad because for a person like him to get so close to making slavery a thing again is negative. 

    ]]>     2017-03-17 18:05:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867347     Destiny Bennett 6th Period 10011201 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867519 2017-03-17 18:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867519 Jasmine Nelson 6th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867542 It is weird to think that one of our founding fathers built Clemson on his own slave plantation and believed slavery was a good thing. I believe that slavery was wrong and should have never been apart of our history. Every human being should be treated equal, no matter what skin color they are. Things are better in today´s society compared to how things were during that time, and I´m glad the U.S learned from its mistakes of slavery.]]> 2017-03-17 18:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867542 Malisa Morris (6th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867580 I didn't agree with his opinions at all I don't understand how people can be taken from there homes and family's abused mentally, physically and emotionally for years and have people think it's helpful because they benefit from peoples misfortunes]]> 2017-03-17 18:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867580 Morgan Wilson 6th Period 00018993 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867596 In my opinion, I think that slavery is very bad. Any type of slavery is is not good at all. Some people were taken away from the people they love and were forced to work for someone else.]]> 2017-03-17 18:07:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160867596 Nick Clark https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868003 Clemson was built on the plantation land of john C. calhoun . He was the vice president of the united states he thought slavery was good he was a wealthy man ]]> 2017-03-17 18:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868003 KyAsia Vereen 00034878 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868028 I feel that slavery is bad and not acceptable. Even if the slaves were provided clothes and food they still were punished and forced to work , no one should ever have to go through that everyone should have a choice. That fact that one of our finding founders think slavery is positive make you think about why and shows why racism still exist.

    ]]>     2017-03-17 18:09:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868028     Markesa Martin https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868603 Slavery will forever be wrong to me.  No one should be working for no one in that way, shape, or form.
    Just from reading the title, I could tell that this story was going to be terrible because slavery is never used in a positive sense.
    slavery should never be thought of as slavery just because its wrong, not just because were black but the fact that they were doing black wrong at the time

    ]]>     2017-03-17 18:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868603     Justin Hulsey https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868731 I do not like the idea of owning someone, even if I had a child. People, should all have that idea and mindset. Even though slavery was brought to the world by the Middle-East, the American citizens blame their past and the white people for it but in reality the African chieftain sold their people to the colonial times peoples. 

    ]]>     2017-03-17 18:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868731     Troy https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868899 I feel that slavery is bad and not acceptable for anyone one

    ]]>     2017-03-17 18:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868899     Quentin Covington https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868922 John C. Calhoun put Clemson on a plantation. I think he thought of it as a positive thing. I think its stupid how everything was planned out. ]]> 2017-03-17 18:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160868922 Juan Espinosa https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160870842 i think slavery is not a good thing and you can't own a person even if you pay for them 

    ]]>     2017-03-17 18:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160870842     Lacy Johnson https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160876871 Even though having slaves produces many benefits,its inhumane, unethical,and immoral to own slaves to elevate them to a higher and improved live just because you feel like its your duty or obligation ]]> 2017-03-17 18:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160876871 Shusterman; 7th Period https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160877230 Slavery is not a positive good, as enslavement violates the basic rights of the enslaved. The enslaved were, in almost every case, denied any personal freedoms & forbidden from even learning to read & write. I can not relate this story to my life, as my family has no historical connection to slavery.]]> 2017-03-17 18:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160877230 Niyah McCoy (7th Period) https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160877760 Listen, slavery is never good.Till this day slavery is still not good at all. Just because slavery apparently has it "benefits" doesn't mean people should be having to work as slaves and not have the right to do anything about it. This article was straight bull crap and John C. Calhoun should have just kept his mouth shut, because slavery will always never be a good thing to have. 
     ]]>     2017-03-17 18:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160877760     Jada Rose Hall 7th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160877867 I feel like he was thinking with a closed mind. His view was one sided. He was trying to determine the feelings of another person which does not work. I feel like maybe he would have a different attitude if he lived in this day. ]]> 2017-03-17 18:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160877867 Blessing Agho 7th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160878008 I disagree with his belief. Nobody deserves to be a slave. He thinks that slavery is the best thing for black people. The thing is they didn't ask for it. They were doing good in Africa before they brought them, so they did not have to be a slave for no one. Racism has gotten better today than it was in history, but it is not truly resolved, because there are still incidents dealing with slavery today.]]> 2017-03-17 18:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160878008 Jada Mack 7th 100247411 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160878402 I don't think slavery is a "positive good". I think it;s just evil. Calhoun's speech had so many different rights and ideas to help prove his point. It doesn't. Fact is, no one should have to be "beaten and bruised" by somebody just because of the color of their skin. It's wrong no matter what

    ]]>     2017-03-17 18:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160878402     Collin Williams https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160879473 Silvery is Wrong not matter what. People where sold like property. What happen but then there aren't words that can describe the evil that was done. ]]> 2017-03-17 18:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160879473 shanece adams 7th period https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160879514 slavery will always be bad till this day,in my mind i feel that i am in slavery but you know i am trying to break away from it im trying to run away from it because in history thats all you could try to do ]]> 2017-03-17 19:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160879514 Anthony Reed Period 7 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160879766 Slavery was always wrong no matter what. People were taken away from their families to go work for someone else and take care of their land without pay or good treatment]]> 2017-03-17 19:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160879766 https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160880505 Nakia Burton 7th period 

    Slavery isn't a good thing because it's bad how they treat the people. They are still people like us. Some people were taking away from there families.Its still bad even if they have food or clothes, They are slaves you got to realize that's not good to be treated the way they are treated. ]]>     2017-03-17 19:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160880505     slavery was a way that white people could treat blacks based on skin color back then. slavery also includes labor for anyone. today it still goes on. slavery was horrible https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160880738 2017-03-17 19:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160880738 Jordan Hollis 7th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160880798 I just feel like slavery is wrong in general. Don't really know how to back up the statement..]]> 2017-03-17 19:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160880798 Nahyah Nelson 7th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160881388 Slavery will always be wrong. ]]> 2017-03-17 19:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160881388 Bradley Bitz 7th https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160882811 Slavery is bad its wrong but to some slaves have it easier than others? Sure they do but i feel like every slave would rather be free. Or they would rather have the option of being able to go home with their days pay. ]]> 2017-03-17 19:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kswygert/i2irhwnrt1io/wish/160882811