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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.
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.
Abolitionists focused attention on slavery and made it difficult to ignore. They heightened the rift that had threatened to destroy the unity of the nation even as early as the Constitutional Convention.
Analyze how pro-slavery arguments influenced political debates surrounding slavery leading up to the Civil War. Pro-slavery arguments significantly influenced political debates as tensions heightened between Northern abolitionists and Southern defenders of 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.
Abolitionist sentiments permeated Northern society, and in 1830, Black anti-slavery activism culminated in the first National Negro Convention in Philadelphia. The compounding movement to abolish slavery, matched by the mounting land grabs and the creation of new American states, led to federal attempts to circumvent a national crisis. In ...
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.
