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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.
14 Φεβ 2022 · 1. Slavery provided an opportunity for slaves to be converted to Christianity, thus giving them a chance of saving their souls, a privilege not afforded in Africa. 2. Slavery was supported by the Scriptures and was compatible with Christianity. 3. Slaves in the Caribbean could learn from whites how to live a Christian life. Social 1.
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.
Flanders's The Ebony Idol (1860) attempted to expose the inherent racism of the abolitionist movement. In her novel, a New England abolitionist rues the day he invites a young emancipated slave, Caesar, into his household when Caesar's eventual engagement to a young white woman ends in mob violence and death.
thorough study of Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South. In a brilliant chapter in The Liberal Tradition in America Louis Hartz has placed the political theory of the southern defenders in perspective, and William R. Stanton's The Leopard's Spots revealingly analyzes the scientific arguments used to bolster slavery.
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.
18 Αυγ 2016 · They were responding to the increasingly powerful abolitionist critique of slavery. 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.
