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Proslavery is support for slavery. [1] . It is sometimes found in the thought of ancient philosophers, religious texts, and in American and British writings especially before the American Civil War but also later through the 20th century.
How did proponents of slavery in antebellum America defend it as a positive good? Understanding.
Slavery as a positive good in the United States was the prevailing view of Southern politicians and intellectuals just before the American Civil War, as opposed to seeing it as a crime against humanity or a necessary evil.
The proslavery position often vacillated between viciously stereotypical denigrations of enslaved people that linked them intellectually with animal property and sentimental romantic depictions of content and docile slaves. Often the former were rooted in popular pseudoscientific theories developed in the wake of the European Enlightenment.
18 Αυγ 2016 · The academics’ proslavery arguments often built a political theory of hierarchy. It emphasized the inequality of enslaved people and argued that enslaved people were not fit for freedom.
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.
19 Σεπ 2015 · The shaping policies of the early republic were proslavery because the federal government was controlled by southern expansionists like Jefferson and Jackson, who saw Africans as a captive...
