Alright so first real post, yay? So one thing that came up in my head over and over again is how do these people make good role models for the country and for the public. It confuzzled me how this country could publicly abuse white and black people, leaders, and the poor. If you guys look at the cartoon on page 38 then I think you guys can see what’s going on in my head and the heads of the british.

The role models back then were the northern capitalist, the pioneers, and the southern slaveholders. I don’t know about the pioneers but the other two were violent and manipulative. In the North you had proslavery activists kidnapping and catching slaves while at the same time you had the abolitionists using violence to push the kidnappers away. This all being viewed by the public eye. And in the end I want to know what the hell were the bystanders thinking.

So I’m gonna lay some questions that maybe you guys could answer to cause I know that helps me.

  1. What would go through your mind if you saw this kind of violence today?

  2. What do you think the British thought of all of this?

P.S. Great Job Emma you were hilarious and the play was great.