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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.
18 Αυγ 2016 · The academics’ proslavery arguments often built a political theory of hierarchy. It emphasized the inequality of enslaved people and argued that enslaved people were not fit for freedom.
18 Αυγ 2016 · The debates over the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 reveal key proslavery arguments, such as the importance of economic utility, a sense that slavery is nearly ubiquitous in human history, and that slavery cannot be ended without doing more harm than good.
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.
To understand. how slavery's apologists came to embrace conclusions we find unthinka- ble, we must look beyond the polemics of the slavery controversy. Many of the bewildering aspects of the defense of slavery are best understood as expressions of the special needs of an alienated Southern.
1 Ιουλ 2011 · For comparison, see Hanke (1959), 13, 16–17, 113–14 on the use of Aristotle in arguments about native peoples of North America. Abstract. Southern academics, politicians, and polemicists claimed Aristotle as a notable progenitor of the proslavery cause. This chapter argues that this.
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.
