History Exam

Can you tell me who the following 2 individuals are?

Individual A:

• In 23 years years as a litigator, he never once represented a slave, but he had represented a slave owner. He argued against Illinois State Constitution in order to bring a slave back to captivity.
• He never wanted freed slaves to coexist with whites. His plan had always been to ship them back to Africa, or send them to Central America. He issued his plan to a group of black ministers and said, “It is better for us both to be separated, for the good of mankind.”
• He once said, “I will say then that I am not, nor have ever been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. That I am not, nor have ever been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes.”
• Of him, the preeminent abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison said, “[He has] not a drop of anti-slavery blood in his veins.”
• In a public letter to Horace Greeley, he said “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union.”

Individual B:

• Often talked of the immorality of slavery.
• Freed all 160+ of his family's slaves prior to the emancipation proclamation.
• Pushed for emancipation and equal pay for slaves who fought for the confederacy. They were granted equal pay (this was not the case for blacks in the Union Army, nor were they permitted to march with whites).
• In a post-Civil War Episcopalian church, many prominent former Confederates congregated. When a black man took communion first the congregation was startled. Some angry, some embarrassed. After a pause, Individual B knelt next to the freedman and took communion with him, subduing the situation.
• As President of Washington College, he played a big part in race relations, including dissolving a lynch mob who was aimed to hang a black man that had murdered a prominent white.

Answers: Individual A - nlocnil maharba Individual B - eel e trebor