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14 Φεβ 2022 · 1. Slavery was inhumane and cruel, unjust and the punishment meted. out to the slaves was harsh for example the uses of the treadmill. 2. Slaves were not properly provided for, since food, clothing, housing.
Understanding. With an argument that was as much a critique of industrialism as it was a defense of slavery, Southern spokesmen contended that chattel slavery, as it was practiced in the American South, was more humane than the system of “wage slavery” that prevailed in the industrial North and Great Britain.
It discusses early proslavery thought in the Americas, proslavery thought in the age of revolution, the role of proslavery thought in sectional conflict and postbellum sectional reconciliation, and the problem of proslavery thought in the modern world and in twentieth-century historiography.
Cartwright's pro-slavery argument started with an attack upon abolitionists. While visiting Europe in 1837, he had be-come convinced that London Abolitionists, through books and other means, were plotting to "stir up the Christians of the Northern states" against the South.9 In a lengthy article published in the Southern Quarterly Review in ...
Though allied with the immorality of slavery, proslavery literature shined a spotlight on the inconsistencies within abolitionists' antislavery ideology and their belief in white racial supremacy. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Of these two distinctively southern movements, the pro-slavery argument is decidedly the less attractive, and fortunately a great many of the issues connected with it have long been settled. The arguments used by southerners to defend their "peculiar institution" have been familiar, at least in outline,
Abolitionist ideas and actions reframed how people understood slavery, race, global freedom, and multicultural democracy. When English writer Samuel Johnson published his famous dictionary in the 1750s, there was no entry for “abolition” or even “slavery.”
