Impending Crisis!

Reading the excerpt of Helper's book titled "Impending crisis and answer the following questions:

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1. Why did Helper believe slavery was bad for the South?
2. What kind of people was Helper most interested in helping? How can you tell from this excerpt?
3. Who was Helper’s audience for this book? How can you tell from the way it was written? Were the likely readers the same as the people he wanted most to help?
4. Helper said that “Patriotism makes us a freesoiler… a profound sense of duty to the South makes us an abolitionist.” How did he make that argument?
5. Why did Helper point out that he was the son of a slaveholder? Why did he mention not only that he was from North Carolina but specifically that he was from the Yadkin Valley? (Remember that he was writing for readers far beyond North Carolina.)
6. Find the places in this excerpt where Helper refers to manhood, manliness, or “unmanly” behavior. What does he mean by “manly”? How might his choice of words have appealed to — or insulted — his readers?
7. What reaction did Helper expect from southern readers?
8. Why do you think that most southerners were so angry about Helper’s book?
9. What was the “impending crisis” — the great crisis that was coming soon? Why did Helper welcome it? What outcome did he expect?