Dealing With This Newly Granted Freedom...

13th Amendment- With slavery being abolished, we are worried that the farmers and their farms, which is the most important aspect in our economy,will suffer. To prevent this, we are encouraging former slaves to go back and work on the plantations that they worked on before slavery was abolished. This will ensure that farms will not fail and farmers can still live the lives that they used to, but also ensure that blacks have a chance to make a living.

14th Amendment- I, for one, full endorse the use of the Black Codes. The Black Codes are a set of laws that limit what blacks can and can't do in society. I am thinking that by limiting and regulating what the blacks can do, the whites will still feel superior. Also, these laws allow blacks to experience much more than they did while they were slaves, so in a sense, everyone wins. The fact that they can get married, own land, and have access to the courts, will give them a sense of freedom that they have never felt, while still giving them less freedom than the whites. They still can't vote, participate in a jury, or even testify against a white man pleases the former slave owners and whites because they still feel superior.

15th Amendment- This has caused many problems in the beautiful state of South Carolina. One of the reasons that the transition between slavery existing and being abolished was going as well as it was was due to the fact that blacks couldn't vote under the Black Codes. However, I have thought of a solution that might work. I propose that we enforce a poll tax. This would be a fee that blacks had to pay in order to vote. The amendment states that we shall not prohibit their ability to vote based on their skin color, and this puts us int the clear, because if one can't pay this modest fee, then one can not vote. And if that fails, and the blacks can pay the fee, then we will make them take a literacy test. This will ensure that only the educated blacks, which is very small number, can vote. These proposals should prohibit blacks from having too much say in what goes on in the government.

Tyler Perry
Governor of South Carolina

Diary Entry

Dear Diary,

Everything out here is great. Since people in the west practice slavery, I was able to buy myself some slaves. I also bought one of the new invented cotton gins, and my profits and production have sky rocketed. Life out here might even be better than back in South Carolina, but I won't admit that to anyone! Also with the newly purchased land in California from Mexico, the people here have more opportunity to expand and make things better for themselves. I have heard that many people are thinking about moving to this newly acquired land, and if enough people do, I might move myself and my slaves as well! We will just have to wait and see.

James

Letter to the Governor

Dear Tyler Perry,

Hope this letter meets you well. I just wanted to update you on the status of our trip west. Everything is going good so far. The west is full of opportunities, and I am looking forward to sharing our ideals with the people in these newer states. Also, because of the gold that is out here, we are experiencing what they are calling a
gold rush", and people from all over the world are rushing in to get their hands on the gold. Also, I think you would be happy to hear that the states out here condone slavery, so in a sense, it will be kind of like home. I will update you soon.

Sincerely,

James Smith

The colony of South Carolina has decided to join the Anti-Federalists. The idea of a very powerful national government and power in the hands of the wealthy scares us quite a bit. The fact that most of our population are farmers and not the high class merchants that will have all of the power in this new constitution does not sound favorable for us, or any of the other states that rely on the same things that we do, like farming! Also, doesn't a government with a lot of power sound like another place we know? A place that we all chose to leave? If we allow this new constitution, we will end up in the same place that we were in in England. Only the wealthy and high class, as well as the King, have any power, and the rest of us are forced to do and say what we are told. That wasn't the picture for America guys! This is the land of new opportunities, and if we strip away our freedoms through all of these new recommendations, then we might as well all move back to England.

Tyler Perry

In Reply...

To Whom It May Concern,

First of all, you are welcome. I believe that slaves are slaves for a reason, and should be treated as such. Therefore, once to pay to own one, you should have them for life.

Secondly, the thought of you levying taxes for certain people does not bring a smile to my face. That means less money for you, which overall means less money for me.

And finally, I don't care what you think. I am the King, and I can do as I please. I like money, and taxing you directly gives me more of it.

Sincerely,

The King of England

A Letter...

Dearest King,

I am writing you today to tell you that I, and the colony of South Carolina, are fully and loyally behind your stance on slavery in the colonies. Seeing as our colony's population is 61% slaves, and that more than 50% of the slaves that come into America come through Charleston, we would hate to see all of that revenue and commerce leave! Also, our rice production has sky rocketed, and seeing as rice is our main source of income, and slaves are the ones that contribute the most to all of the labor that it takes to produce the rice, we appreciate the fact that you want them to stay, and that we are allowed to buy them for life!

On the topic of slavery... I do not appreciate the fact that you and your advisers denied us the right to try and increase our white population by promising incentives to those who come in! With slavery being so prevalent in South Carolina, and the need for slavery due to the high demand for rice and other products, we are outnumbered! I don't want a re-occurrence of the Stono Rebellion, where more than 20 of our men died to the hands of slaves! And I am fearful that, by you denying us the right to provide some incentive for people to move in, our white population will not increase, and something like that will happen again! The blood will be on your hands!

Lastly, I must say that I do not like this idea of direct taxation on our paper materials! We work very hard on producing and shipping the things that we have here in America to you in England, and the fact that you want to take more from us is just preposterous! The least that you could do is let us have some representation in the things that involve us! No taxation without representation!

Humbly,

Tyler Perry
The Royal Governor of South Carolina

Introduction!

            Instead of establishing a new, fictitious colony, I have chosen to settle in a colony that was already been formed, that being South Carolina. The leader of my colony, whose name is Tyler Perry, and his group of around 50 followers, have chosen to leave England for one reason, religious freedom. With the newly created Church of England, Perry and his followers were afraid that they would face religious persecution if they chose to stay. They had heard rumors of all these people fleeing to the newly found Americas, and they think that would be a great place to go to and be able to believe and think the way they want to think! In order to achieve their goal however, they were going to need a way to get over there. So, in hopes of getting England to pay for it herself, they devised a plan to tell the King that they would travel to the new world and establish a colony south of Virginia, that they would cultivate and send the goods and profits his way. The King liked the sound of that, because if they went over there and it was successful, then he was in the clear, and making a lot more money, and if they failed, he would just never speak of it again, and hey, it was only about 50 people, so who would notice?

            So they were off! Perry and his followers were on their way to the New World, in hopes that they would not only find religious freedom, but that they would all be able to start over new, and erase their past lives. The looked forward to settling in, making a life for themselves, and thriving in their new colony! Though they had high hopes, there was a feeling of immense fear in the back of their heads. This was a brand new life for the settlers. They hadn’t heard much about the colonies, and were fearful that once they get there, it might not be all that is was cracked up to be. They had heard about the Native Americans, and were afraid of the hostility that might arise between the two groups. They had a plan to make things work with the Native Americans, but what if they weren’t willing to compromise? All of these things were plaguing the minds of Perry and his group, yet, they kept their heads high. All in all, they were excited, yet fearful. Like one would be if they were about to sky dive, excited about actually sky diving, and how much fun it could be, but fearful of the fact that if something goes wrong, it could end in disaster.