William Lloyd Garrison was a strong abolitionist of the time. He gave many speeches on the evils of slavery and even published an anti-slavery newspaper, “The Liberator.” He had a big part in educating the public on the savage truths of slavery,

An essay written by Garrison in 1854 expresses quite clearly his opposition to “that which turns a man to a thing.” Garrison is effective in reaching his readers through the laws of God. Most people during this time period were religious, God-fearing folk. Garrison knew this so he used phrases such as “…freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil.” In oter words, if you’re against slavery, you’re with God. This was quite a persuasive argu

I found Garrison’s essay to be much more persuasive than Fitzhugh’s. Garrison’s arguments made more sense. Fitzhugh was obviously hiding the dark sides of slavery and attempting to speak for blacks. He tried to make it sound like blacks preferred slavery to a life of freedom. Any intelligent person would understand that no man likes being owned. Garrison helped his readers to empathize with the plight of the slave. If someone who had no opinion on the issue of slavery were to read these two essays, it is hard for me to believe that they would not disregard Fitzhugh’s as empty and unfounded claims of a biased “man-stealer.”

But unlike Garrison, George Fitzhugh, an advocate of slavery, barely even mentions God in an essay defending the institution. I don’t think that people in the South were any less religious than those in the North. Fitzhugh knew that “God” wasn’t a strong argument in favor of enslavement. Instead, Fitzhugh’s argument is that slavery is a good thing for blacks.

Another of Fitzhugh’s outrageous defenses is that “the negroe slaves of the South are the happiest.�

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