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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.
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.
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.
6 Μαρ 2018 · With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America’s southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation. Their fuel of choice? Human slavery.
25 Αυγ 2017 · 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. Spooner did more than ground his opposition to slavery on natural law and natural rights.
Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy. Anthony Hazard discusses the historical, economic and personal impact of this massive historical injustice.
