Authors_Slavery_Positions

Authors Slavery Positions The issue of slavery in the nineteenth century produced an overwhelming issue in society. There were some writers that favored slavery and then there were some that did not favor slavery. In favor of slavery were William Gillmore Simms, and Caroline Hentz. Those opposed to slavery were Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, and Herman Melville. All of these writers presented their views of slavery in the their literary works. William Simms was a supporter of slavery and this evident in his novel, “Woodcraft.” This novel takes place in the south during the closing of the Revolutionary War. Simms was born in Charleston, South Carolina, so he was raised on the souths’ position of pro-slavery. In Simms novel Woodcraft, he states, “ Exhaustion not wisdom, or a better state of feeling, was the secret of the peace which was finally concluded between the two nations (America and Great Britain), and of which, South Carolina, and Charleston in particular, was eagerly expecting the benefits. (Simms 35) Great Britain had spent most of the Revolutionary War occupying Charleston and the soldiers would stay at the peoples’ home with out the homeowners consent. slaves, slavery, douglass, stowe, war, states, treated, thoreau, south, slave, owners, novel, hentz, simms, just, great, very, shows, melville, charleston, carolina, beecher, another, about, writers, tax, show, pay, mrshelby, issue, harriet, frederick, families, during, britain, boy, albert, young, wrote, writer, woodcraft, uncle, time, split, revolutionary, perceived, opposed, one, often, nineteenth