Abolitionists
Discussion & Essay Questions
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Sample of Discussion & Essay Questions
- Big Picture
- How would you explain the striking contradictions of early America? Slavery within a society that celebrates freedom? Brutal exploitation among a people who believed that they were launching a noble experiment in liberty?
- Does Contemporary American society hold any similar contradictions?
- Will future historians ponder some strange blind spot in our own society?
- Is there a scorned, minority movement that future generations will celebrate for its foresight and heroism?
- Tree huggers?
- Tea Partiers?
- Peaceniks?
- Militiamen?