Abolitionist Faction ?? as The Rev. Henry Highland Garnet at age 30 pastors a church in Troy, N.Y. and is one of the nation’s leading Black clergymen. He escaped slavery in Maryland at age 9 and his 1843 speech to the National Negro Convention urged rebellion against slaveholders. ?? as Miss Frances Ellen Watkins is a young Black woman, born free in Maryland, devoted to racial uplift, emancipation, and writing; she’s published a book of poems already and will become a famous Black writer (in the future, after she marries and takes the name Harper). ?? as Sojourner Truth, the former slave from New York’s Hudson Valley, is a traveling evangelical Christian, an illiterate who can recite most Scriptures from memory. She is devoted to God, hears direct Revelations, and expects Judgment soon. ?? as Angelina Grimke (b. 1805) is the sister of Sarah, and likewise has rejected her family’s slaveholding values of the Carolina ruling class, joined and left the Society of Friends, became an Abolitionist and asserted the rights of women to speak publicly. Married to abolitionist Theodore Weld. ?? as William Lloyd Garrison, a white man, founded immediate Abolitionism and the Liberator newspaper in 1831. His earliest and strongest support came from free people of color in the North. He rejects participating in elections as inherently corrupting and advocates “Disunionism,” as do most Abolitionists in this game. Defenders of the Constitution Faction ?? as John C. Calhoun of South Carolina is the chief proponent of the “Positive Good” defense of slavery and the leading ideologue of Southern rights. His theories justify secession if slavery is endangered within the United States. (See the Calhoun writings included in this Gamebook’s Documents). Adam Swoboda as The True Jeffersonian is a Virginia planter who upholds all the ideas of the great Thomas Jefferson and asserts Jefferson’s enduring value for all Americans. He sees slaveholding as a regrettable burden, not the Positive Good claimed by others. ?? as Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky is the Great Compromiser of American politics, a rich plantation owner, an advocate of relocating freed slaves from America to Africa. He was nearly elected president last year, in 1844, as the Whig party nominee, but thwarted by the so called political abolitionists of the “Liberty Party,” who got enough votes to throw the election in New York to the Democrat James Knox Polk. ?? as Thomas R. Dew, now president of William & Mary College, is one of the first and most articulate defenders of the peculiar institution, which needed no defense before the Abolitionist onslaught of the 1830s. He disputes the economic practicality of African colonization. ?? as Samuel F.B. Morse of New York City is now devoting himself to converting his invention, the telegraph, into a grand business enterprise, but he is also a noted painter and deep thinker on religion and ethnicity. He understands slavery is being no more inherently sinful than any other human institution and affirms the Constitution. ?? as Mrs. Sophia Auld is the wife of Hugh Auld, and the woman who first taught Frederick Bailey to read and write. Independent characters with their own concerns and goals ?? as The Son of New Orleans is a young man now working as a Clerk to a furnishing merchant in New York; he attended Harvard College at his New England mother’s behest but grew up in New Orleans, where his father is engaged in many businesses. ?? as Charles Dickens is the greatest living writer in the world, beloved on both sides of the Atlantic by millions of readers. On this second visit to the United States, he has invited many people to a Literary Forum to evaluate the new book by Frederick Douglass. His “star power” is unequalled by any other private citizen of the century, and nearly everybody who is anybody wants to be associated with the beloved author. ?? as Edgar Allan Poe is a writer, now living in New York but raised in Richmond, whose poem “The Raven” has gotten great notice since its publication early this year. He aspires to enduring literary recognition and may earn it, with his unique style and themes. ?? as Walt Whitman, a young man, a former schoolteacher and current newspaperman, is confident that his future writings will remake the literature of mankind. He likes to ask tough questions and likes intelligent men. A native of Long Island, he now lives in New York, where he soaks up the multitudes. ?? as The Honorable Daniel Webster of Massachusetts is one of the country’s great statesmen and a great lawyer. He defends “Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.” He is a nationalist, defender of property, and opposes extremism.
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