Today in history we shared our results on the worksheets given last class. This time we discussed how the Constitution was against slavery. My part which was the preamble to the Constitution was against slavery in many ways. First of all it starts out by saying "We the People of the United States" which would include the slaves living there. It then goes on by ensuring things like domestic tranquility, justice, liberty, etc.. These things are all very beneficial things to our country and if we did not have them, slavery would not have been abolished.
Today in English we worked more on our Frederick Douglass packets. I used this class period to read a lot more of the book. Something ineresting that I read was how Colonel Lloyd protected his garden. He protected it by placing tar around it so that any slave caught with tar on their clothing could be immediatly found guilty of stealing or trespassing in the garden. I thought this was clever because it was a foolproof plan and made the slaves terrified of getting any tar on their clothing.
Colonel Lloyd's sytem of using tar was a lot like the modern day security system that stops theifs from stealing clothing. If somebody wants to steal clothing, there is a device on it that is filled with ink and explodes if you dont get it removed in the store. This is a lot like the tar idea because if you do steal the clothing, you can be caught because you couldnt remove the plastic security device or it will explode ink all over the clothing, making them pointless to steal in the first place. Who would've thought that colonel Lloyd and modern day clothing stores had anything in common?
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