- By 1760 three slaves existed for every two free settlers
- The backbone of the entire southern colonial economy was through the labor of slaves
- About 10 percent of the south's people lived on plantations, though that 10 percent owned 90 percent of the regions wealth
- Slavery was permitted in all of the middle colonies, but it was never central to the economy
- A skilled slave in the big city could find numerous job in which to work for
- Quakers and Mennonites criticized slavery as an immoral, evil institution
- Benjamin Banneker was a free black American (person of intelligence), who believed that himself and other Christian men should view everyone as equal
- Sustaining spirit of African American literature is dedicated to human dignity
- In the realm of spirits, most whites were tolerate with African Americans claims to an equal right to God's grace, as long as their salvation did not entail a radical redemption of the white dominated social order.
- Whites presumed themselves alone to be the arbiters of privileges and rights in the political sphere
Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build (Introduction)
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- Purpose: to convey and support her reasons to the foundation of people in a society and how the racial makings of someone's heritage or skin to help farther build and stabilize that same foundation
- "...to enforce upon your minds the great necessity of turning your attention to knowledge and improvement." People should focus their thoughts more on obtaining knowledge and making enhancements that will be better for its people
- " Though black your skins as shades of night, your hearts are pure, your souls are white." Whatever the shade of color the black people had obtained, their souls were the same shade as any other
Highlights: Strong desire to devote remainder days to piety and virtue
Uses religion to help support her theory on improving a social foundation
Meditations of the heart