United+States+Slavery

Using your Venn Diagram, organize what is similar and what is different about each of these slave revolts:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1576.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p2976.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html

Additionally, please read "David Walker's Appeal" and answer the following questions:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931.html

1) Do you think that Southern slave owners were correct in fearing David Walker? What does Walker say that would be most threatening to them?

2) What were David Walker's goals?

3) How effective were David Walker's arguments (please identify at least one of them)?