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It links to a PDF you can print and distribute. The PDF includes excerpts from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from which students can mine evidence to deploy against Fitzhugh. Selecting passages to serve as evidence and providing rationales for those choices offer an ...
One of the most vehement proponents of this argument was George Fitzhugh (1806–1881), a Virginia lawyer, writer, and slaveowner. He believed that civilization depended upon the exploitation of labor. This led him to ask which system — slavery or free labor — exploited workers less.
Written as a direct justification of slavery against abolitionist arguments, this supports Mitchell’s portrayal of slaveholders, who justify slavery on the moral basis that slaves are happy with their condition.
Their findings have suggested that slavery's champions were ridden with guilt, driven by an inferiority complex, and more concerned with convincing themselves than their abolitionist opponents that
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.
Proslavery Argument: The Abolition of Slavery in Antebellum South Carolina By KENNETH S. GREENBERG HISTORIANS OF ANTEBELLUM PROSLAVERY THOUGHT GENERALLY agree that the American Revolution encouraged belief in ideals fundamentally antagonistic to the defense of black slavery. Yet they radically disagree over the consequences of this antagonism.
Of these two distinctively southern movements, the pro-slavery argument is decidedly the less attractive, and fortunately a great many of the issues connected with it have long been settled. The arguments used by southerners to defend their "peculiar institution" have been familiar, at least in outline,
