1. As part of his defense of slavery, John C. Calhoun asserts that slaves are treated well in the South. How else does he justify slavery? What evidence does Theodore Dwight Weld offer in opposition to Calhoun’s argument?
2. What kinds of supporting evidence does Robert Liston use to support his assertions on the nature of slavery? What types of evidence does William K. Scarborough cite?
3. On the issue of paying black Americans for the harms of slavery, whose viewpoint do you find more convincing—Ronald Walters’s or Karl Zinsmeister’s—and why"