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| Alabama | You are a farmer, and you rent the land you farm. You do not own slaves. You believe white men are the only real, legal, moral & civil proprietors of state & country. You Cannot Vote. |
| Connecticut | You are an emancipated black man. You are a tailor, & you are saving your wages to buy your wife & children from their owners. You are treated like a second-class citizen. You cannot vote. |
| Delaware | You are a farmer who owns slaves. You believe you should be able to bring your property into any state or territory that you want. You believe that manual labor is the proper work for slaves. |
| Georgia | You are a wealthy tobacco planter originally from NY. Your plantation has 250 slaves. You believe the slaves are better off here in America than in Africa. You are also a U.S. senator. |
| Indiana | You are an 18 year old carpenter's apprentice. You do not want to compete for a job with a black man, who will work for less wages. You are in favor of keeping the status quo. You cannot vote. |
| Illinois | You are a farmer. You don't have an opinion on slavery, but you think the Southern states have too much influence in the government. You are in favor of new states joining the Union. |
| Kentucky | You raise and train racehorses. You own ten slaves. You believe that you treat them well, & you believe they are happy, content, & devoted to you & your family. You believe the Union will dissolve if legislators cannot compromise. |
| Louisiana | You are an overseer on a large cotton plantation in charge of 500 slaves. You believe they are better suited for the climate & labor than white men. You cannot vote. |
| Maryland | You are a cotton broker. You believe "Cotton is King." The more cotton the North & Europe needs, the more you profit. Slavery makes good economic sense to you. |
| Massachusetts | You are a newspaper editor in the city, & you ardently believe that it is the government's responsibility to abolish slavery. You write editorials denouncing the evils of slavery. Your views are not always popular in the North. |
| Mississippi | You are a lawyer, & your best clients are plantation owners. You uphold the Slave code, but you privately |
| New Hampshire | You are a country doctor. You believe slavery will eventually and gradually die out as the South becomes more industrial. Concerned that the majority of presidents have been southern slaveholders. |
| New Jersey | College graduate and a teacher who was tutor to a planter's family in the South. Warned not to teach slaves, you left your position to return home. You believe that slaves should be sent back to Africa |
| New York | Minister who traveled through the South. You witnessed a slave auction. Opposed to slavery on moral grounds and believe it is inconsistent with Declaration of Independence. |
| North Carolina | Own a small farm. You resent the plantation aristocracy and would like to see them overthrown. Believe Southerners should invest their money in the South rather than North. You see slavery as necessary economic evil. |
| Ohio | You are a store clerk. You are Quaker and secret member of the Union Humane Society. You keep your membership secret because neighbors do not agree that all men are born equal. |
| Pennsyvania | Live in a town near the Mason-Dixon line. Escaped slaves stop by your house for help, but you don't want to break the law. You deny any knowledge of them when their owners post a reward. |
| Rhode Island | Wealthy merchant whose family fortune was made in the slave trade. You now own a mill that processes cotton imported from the South. You employ immigrant labor. You dispute charges that mill workers are like slaves. You are making your family's second fortune. |
| South Carolina | You are a slave trader. Your business auctions three classes of slaves: servant, town slaves and field hands. You would like to expand your business. The more cotton and sugar cane the world needs, the more slaves you can auction. |
| Tennessee | You are a poor farmer. You don't own slaves and cannot afford to rent them to help with the harvest. You remember Gabriel Prosser and you are worried about slave rebellion |
| Vermont | You believe a free man has more motivation to work and succeed than an enslaved man. You believe where the manual labor of a country is performed by slaves, labor dishonors the hands of free men. |
| Virginia | You are a free black man. You must carry a certificate of freedom, have a license to do business, and observe a curfew. You own three barber shops and several slaves. |
| Arkansas | You are a veteran of the Mexican-American War. Your service and the sacrifice of your comrades helped the U.S. acquire new territories. You believe you have a right to establish slavery in the territories as long as it is below the line established by the Missouri Compromise. |
| Iowa | You are a banker. You own two slaves: a housekeeper and a handy man. Sometimes you rent out the handy man so that you can earn extra income. You believe abolitionists are attacking the Southern way of life and that abolition and the Union cannot co-exist. |
| Florida | You are a slave catcher. Slavery is protected by the Constitution. You believe the Southern economy will collapse without the institution of slavery. |
| Wisconsin | You live in a city and have never met a black person but you believe everything that you have heard about slaves: that they are lazy and shiftless. You don't have strong convictions one way or the other; you are too concerned with keeping a steady job to support your family. |
| Texas | You are a slave whose master is a Fire-Eater-he believes the North wants to rule the South and he thinks the South would be better off not being part of the Union. Your master is a good Christian who finds biblical justification for slavery. He believes that you are happy. You cannot vote. |
| Maine | Your free state was created as a result of the Missouri Compromise. You are opposed to slavery, and in 1836 you petitioned Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in Washington D.C. You believer that there is a law higher than the Constitution. |
| Missouri | You are a river boat captain. Your state was created as a result of the Missouri Compromise. You think the balance of power between the slave states and free states is important. You are concerned that North will become too powerful because of greater representation in Congress. |
