Stewart talks about how at first all the people who came to be against slavery were not at first he discussed how even people like thomas jefferson for a while questioned if slaves could be trusted and that they were naturally violent and untrustworthy. But the fact that jefferson even trying to adopt the thought of the abolishment of slavery was an achievement because it showed people how the movement was getting to higher places in the …show more content…
If the reader was not that knowledgeable to the topic the reader would think that everyone in those times were mostly against slavery because the book in the trained eye of someone who knew a reasonable amount about slavery come in a way think the book is a little bias because he mostly states facts and events that of people standing up to slavery and showing remorse about the unjustifiable treatment of the african american race as a whole. For example at the very it beginning of chapter three of the book talks about how 62 abolitionists gather in philadelphia to form a anti slavery society in 1833 but he never talks about the many people to have tried to do things like this before them and have died. Stuart is very subtle in his approach or description of slavery throughout the entire book. The book feels like he was trying to protect the reader 's mind of the very dark times that had to be fought through before people could even fight to get just a few African Americans their freedom. Some people could see this book as a more friendly but effective way of saying that people during the time being portrayed in the book know they were wrong for stripping people of their lives and now they were trying to apologize for the pain that they put African Americans through. Some characters in the book were not always against slavery but for it people like James