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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.
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.
19 Σεπ 2015 · The Constitution that protected slavery for three generations, until a devastating war and a constitutional amendment changed the game, was actually anti-slavery because it didn’t explicitly...
Prior to the Civil War, both pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates debated the Constitution’s meaning and its relationship to slavery. Several different visions emerged.
This article shows how the same fundamental questions raised by proslavery thought have consistently confronted not only modern scholars but also the very historical actors who battled over slavery's fate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
18 Αυγ 2016 · While some faculty openly questioned slavery, many more embraced it and developed extensive economic, moral, and religious justifications for slavery. This chapter examines the ideas about slavery developed by college faculty.
In his 1860 speech "The Constitution of the United States: is it pro-slavery or anti-slavery? ", Frederick Douglass cites the Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 left behind by James Madison in order to describe four provisions of the Constitution that are said to be pro-slavery.
