Essay On Mixed Children Of Slavery

As slavery became exceedingly prominent in the states the plight of the slaves increased. Mixed children of slave owners were used and seen worth more than other slave children. The masters of these children refused to sell them, such as the case of Elizabeth Hemmings, who later became her master, John Wales’s mistress. Thomas Jefferson was a regular visitor of Wales and later married his daughter Martha. After Wales died the slave became Jefferson’s, soon Martha died and Jefferson failed to attend his affairs and left for France with his daughters for a while. During that time Sarah Hemmings, the daughter of Elizabeth Hemmings was brought as a servant and supposedly became a mistress to Jefferson as well. Sarah sought for freedom in France, but was convinced to come back to the states where she had four children to Jefferson. As Jefferson promised he freed the four children at the age of 21, he rarely showed affection to them as he showed more affection
A supporter of slavery argued that in the Bible, God allowed for the Hebrew’s to own and buy slaves. The proslavery supporter argued that not only did that mean slavery was supposedly not a sin, but the God commanded it. Another argument that was used to defend slavery was that slavery was a keystone of the republic and was the essential foundation of it. In the argument more excuses were made as Hammond defended that not all slaveholders treated their slaves inhumanely, but that the slaves needed to be controlled by fear and to Hammond this action hurt the master to do to the slaves. Hammond lastly goes on saying that Great Britain works their poor harder than the slave-owners work their slaves, even going as far to say that the slaves would join them of ridding the abolitionists if they saw the work the poor class had to do over in Great