The Great Slavery Debate

Should slavery be abolished? Students at Constitution High School debate the advantages and disadvantages of abolishing slavery from an antebellum 19th century perspective. Having students focus on the social, economic, cultural, and to some extent political nature of this debate, helps students understand the context of America's "peculiar institution", roadblocks African Americans needed to overcome in order to abolish slavery, as well as frame the upcoming 10th grade American history course. The purpose of this blog is to create a forum in which students can self-reflect and continue the process of peer-to-peer evaluation as they debate in class.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Oriana v. Kendall

What a great debate! Kendall, her second time up, really showed the audience that practice makes perfect. Oriana, with the disadvantage of debating for the first time, really held her own. In fact, Oriana challenged the fact that the bible holds no legal authority over the question of slavery because it is not a legal document. Kendall took this debate in the end because of the amount of evidence and logical reasoning used during the opening and cross. Congratulations to both debaters.
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  1. jamesMay 8, 2009 at 4:52 PM

    great job the both of yaaa!!!!!!!! oriana i belive your arguments were were great an i believe your vidence was great as well.you did great with you rebuttal and i really did like the cx you asked great questions and i believe kendall waz getting stuck...now kendall luved the argumens and i liked th rebuttal bt i believe oriana should ave one because she gave more evidence and because her questions were better than kendalls....but still great job orianna and kendall and i hope t see yall debate again!!!!

    -james chasten

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  2. Stephanie , !May 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM

    this debate was good in my opinion. The part that i really liked was the cross examinations because they were asking great questions. Kendall asked oriana to define happiness and oriana responded in definition or in my words. i think that was grate but the oriana kept repeating happiness. kendalls arguments we also good and you can tell she was working on them since the last time. oriana had good evidence but over all kendall won but i think oriana should have won.

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