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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
these arguments in juxtaposition to the abolitionist attack and construed the former as counter-propaganda addressed primarily to an audience north of the Mason and Dixon line.
Abolitionism was a social movement—an activist struggle akin to the twentieth-century civil rights movement—that focused on political and social agitation. Abolitionist ideas and actions reframed how people understood slavery, race, global freedom, and multicultural democracy.
