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Revolutionary Ideology and the Proslavery Argument: The Abolition of Slavery in Antebellum South Carolina. Carolina. By KENNETH S. GREENBERG. HISTORIANS OF ANTEBELLUM PROSLAVERY THOUGHT GENERALLY. agree that the American Revolution encouraged belief in ideals fundamentally antagonistic to the defense of black 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.
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.
purpose. But we have too long regarded the proslavery argument either as an object of moral outrage or as a contributing cause of the Civil War. For those who elaborated its details, it had a different meaning. To understand. how slavery's apologists came to embrace conclusions we find unthinka-
1 Μαΐ 2022 · During the 1820s and 1830s, Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, and two small events in South Carolina take place, causing increasing the need for slaveholders to create more pro-slavery arguments.
25 Ιαν 2011 · During the 1850’s, pro-slavery arguments from the pulpit became especially strident. A preacher in Richmond exalted slavery as “the most blessed and beautiful form of social government known; the only one that solves the problem, how rich and poor may dwell together; a beneficent patriarchate.”
W. H. Hulbert of South Carolina observed that slavery, besides demanding a continual supply of new and unexhausted soil, prevented the development of agricultural science.
