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Watch this video from Heimler’s History channel to learn more about some of the main pro-slavery arguments, including the social hierarchy argument, the civilization argument, the economic argument, the racial argument, and the biblical argument.
When a society forms around any institution, as the South did around slavery, it will formulate a set of arguments to support it. The Southerners held ever firmer to their arguments as the political tensions in the country drew us ever closer to the Civil War.
18 Αυγ 2016 · Their broad based support for slavery, from economics and history to political theory and religion, led the way for students and alumni to defend slavery on their campuses, too. The story of southern faculty is that they supported slavery with their scholarship and in their teaching.
19 Σεπ 2024 · Pro-slavery arguments deepened the divide between the backward-looking South and the progressive North, as well as much of the Western world. Southern whites became defensive, reacting to their fears and the relentless criticism from northern abolitionists.
Arguments in favor of slavery include deference to the Bible and thus to God, some people being natural slaves in need of supervision, slaves often being better off than the poorest non-slaves, practical social benefit for the society as a whole, and slavery being a time-proven practice by multiple great civilizations.
Southern preachers insisted that slavery was acknowledged within the Bible and that Jesus had compelled enslaved people to be obedient to their masters. Moreover, millenialists such as James Henley Thornwell (1812–1862) argued that slavery was a necessary evil that must exist until humanity achieved spiritual perfection via the second coming ...
argument in the three decades before the Civil War. 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
