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He discusses the internal slave trade that moved thousands of slaves from the eastern seaboard to the cotton states of the Southwest between 1820 and 1860. Professor Blight then sketches the contents of the pro-slavery argument, including its biblical, historical, economic, cynical, and utopian aspects.
25 Ιαν 2011 · During the 1850’s, pro-slavery arguments from the pulpit became especially strident. A preacher in Richmond exalted slavery as “the most blessed and beautiful form of social government known; the only one that solves the problem, how rich and poor may dwell together; a beneficent patriarchate.”
25 Αυγ 2017 · Southern slaves were supposedly better off than free laborers in the North, yet I don’t know of a single free laborer who voluntarily signed up to be a slave. I have provided this brief overview of proslavery arguments as a prelude to my discussion of Lysander Spooner’s arguments for the unconstitutionality of slavery.
Willing domestic labor by African American women remained a marker of class and respectability in the South throughout much of the twentieth century. Paternalistic rhetoric not only justified slavery, it also established cultural norms that persisted in Southern culture and society for decades.
thorough study of Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South. In a brilliant chapter in The Liberal Tradition in America Louis Hartz has placed the political theory of the southern defenders in perspective, and William R. Stanton's The Leopard's Spots revealingly analyzes the scientific arguments used to bolster slavery.
A collection of the most important American proslavery articles is The Pro-slavery argument: as maintained by the most distinguished writers of the southern states: Containing the several essays on the subject, of Chancellor Harper, Governor Hammond, Dr. Simms, and Professor Dew (1853).
