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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.
- A Pro-Slavery Argument, 1857
Published in Richmond, Virginia, in 1857, and aimed at both...
- A Pro-Slavery Argument, 1857
Published in Richmond, Virginia, in 1857, and aimed at both Northern and Southern readers, it sought to claim for the South the moral high ground in the increasingly fierce national debate over slavery.
Watch this video from Heimler’s History channel to learn more about some of the main pro-slavery arguments, including the social hierarchy argument, the civilization argument, the economic argument, the racial argument, and the biblical argument. White southerners reacted strongly to abolitionists’ attacks on slavery.
I: THE UNIVERSAL TRADE. EXCERPTS. We. are all, North and South, engaged in the White Slave Trade, and he who succeeds best is esteemed most respectable. It is far more cruel than the Black Slave Trade because it exacts more of its slaves, and neither protects nor governs them.
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 people were sold into a life of slavery in the Americas. They were forced to work with no pay and many were treated poorly. This was known as the transatlantic slave trade. This period of history resulted in the deaths of millions of African people.
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.
