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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.
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.
8 Οκτ 2024 · Abolitionists argued that slavery was a social and moral evil that harmed not only the slaves but their owners and society as a whole. Slaves were brutalized and lived in fear and forced...
One of the most damning components of antislavery propaganda was its ability to make slavery appear un-Christian. Ironically, while abolitionist causes were institutionally linked to the Second Great Awakening (1800–1830s), the most prolific religious proslavery advocates were also caught up in new revivalism, specifically Presbyterian ...
This essay highlights the literary and artistic movements pioneered by Black abolitionists from 1780 until the Civil War’s end in 1865. Until the 1960s and 1970s, much scholarly work on abolition retold this history from the perspective of those not directly affected by slavery’s ills.
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.
purpose. But we have too long regarded the proslavery argument either as an object of moral outrage or as a contributing cause of the Civil War. For those who elaborated its details, it had a different meaning. To understand. how slavery's apologists came to embrace conclusions we find unthinka-
