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14 Φεβ 2022 · Arguments against slavery/Anti-Slavery Arguments Humanitarian. 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 and medical care were inadequate and so the slaves often fell prey to ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
