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14 Φεβ 2022 · 1. Slavery was inhumane and cruel, unjust and the punishment meted. out to the slaves was harsh for example the uses of the treadmill. 2. Slaves were not properly provided for, since food, clothing, housing.
As the nation expanded in the 1830s and 1840s, the writings of abolitionists—a small but vocal group of northerners committed to ending slavery—reached a larger national audience. White southerners responded by putting forth arguments in defense of slavery, their way of life, and their honor.
Analyze how pro-slavery arguments influenced political debates surrounding slavery leading up to the Civil War. Pro-slavery arguments significantly influenced political debates as tensions heightened between Northern abolitionists and Southern defenders of slavery.
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 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.
After the abolition of the slave trade, British defenders of slavery drew a distinction between slavery itself and the slave trade, acknowledging the latter to be prohibited by the Bible (in particular, Exodus 21:6, Deut 24:7, 1 Tim 1:9-10), but arguing that the Bible permitted the former.
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.
