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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.
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.
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.
Cartwright's pro-slavery argument started with an attack upon abolitionists. While visiting Europe in 1837, he had be-come convinced that London Abolitionists, through books and other means, were plotting to "stir up the Christians of the Northern states" against the South.9 In a lengthy article published in the Southern Quarterly Review in ...
Through each author’s representation of slavery, we are able to identify the methods employed by the nineteenth century, slaveholding South in morally justifying slavery, and subsequently perceive the overarching fears, anxieties and doubts that were embedded within these pro-slavery arguments.
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.
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,
