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I found it interesting that at the same time as he seems so mad at everyone he is almost begging it seems. And he doesn't even ask for equal rights... just less mean rights. Like, he says its fine to be punished to the full extent of the law, but not the sold. seems like he would try for a farther up bargain. I found it interesting. -- Jessica Lawrie | I found it interesting that at the same time as he seems so mad at everyone he is almost begging it seems. And he doesn't even ask for equal rights... just less mean rights. Like, he says its fine to be punished to the full extent of the law, but not the sold. seems like he would try for a farther up bargain. I found it interesting. -- Jessica Lawrie | ||
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| + | I think that the people reading Forten's proposal were threatened by his eloquence and compelling points of passing this bill. It was as if they thought that if we pass this bill more free blacks will move into our state and become just as educated as Forten, and we will loose our white society in our own state. I think by writing this proposal it actually hurt Forten's chances of passing the bill. I also find it interesting the language he uses, throughout the passage you can tell Forten is clearly educated and uses correct English and grammer, but when giving his anecdotal story about the white men chasing the black man he says "Halloa! Stop the Negro! Hoa ..." He does not paint whites in as educated light as he, he sets them below himself. So the white reading this passage, looses that sense of dominion over Forten, which in this case is a negative because as I stated earlier, they have a fear of blacks becoming more educated, and ultimately more powerful than whites. -- Taja L. Winston | ||
== TJ’s Private & Public Indian Policy as seen in a Letter to Gov. Wm. Henry Harrison, 1803 & a speech to Native Americans ambassadors in 1806 == | == TJ’s Private & Public Indian Policy as seen in a Letter to Gov. Wm. Henry Harrison, 1803 & a speech to Native Americans ambassadors in 1806 == | ||
