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are delicate, weak and inferior and have to be protected. sojourner truth says in this extraordinary speech, nobody ever protected me. shes talking about the hypocrisy underlying it all. now, are there any questions about the womans rights movement or abolition before we move on to the pro slavery argument? lee. >> are there any books that are still published as far as like the autobiography of frederick douglas? >> oh, sure. you mean memoirs by abolitionists? oh, yeah. cassius clay pu...

the world, in the british empire, in spain, in other places in central and south america, slave owners respond and they fight back. and they try their best to stop emancipation. they cling to that institution which has benefitted them so much. and in the united states that happens. slave owners notice right away that the abolitionist movement has geared up and these people are mounting a direct rhetorical attack on the institution. and they respond right away. this is the first sustain...

clause is pro slavery, the three fifth clause is ambiguous but somewhat pro slavery. then there the clause that ended the international slave trade, so that would seem to have an anti-slavery tendency. but they say the founders were pro slavery. they also start to say in the 1830s, this was the first time this argument is really made in any sustained way, they say that slavery is good for black people. that they are benefiting from the institution of slavery. they say that they are lea...

and there has been some debate among historians exactly what she said. but sojourner truth was pointing out the inconsistencies in the criticisms of -- that were directed at female reformers and womans rights activists. the official ideology of the 19th century is that men are different from women and women are delicate, weak and inferior and have to be protected. sojourner truth says in this extraordinary speech, nobody ever protected me. shes talking about the hypocrisy underlying it...

different from women and women are delicate, weak and inferior and have to be protected. sojourner truth says in this extraordinary speech, nobody ever protected me. shes talking about the hypocrisy underlying it all. now, are there any questions about the womans rights movement or abolition before we move on to the pro slavery argument? lee. >> are there any books that are still published as far as like the autobiography of frederick douglas? >> oh, sure. you mean memoirs by abolition...