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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.
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.
11 Απρ 2023 · While the ratio of abolitionists to proslavery may have differed across the churches, the small size of the abolition movement and widespread support for slavery throughout the South makes it exceedingly unlikely that abolitionists ever outnumbered the proslavery faction.
This new edition of introduces the vast number of ways in which educated Southern thinkers and theorists defended the institution of slavery. This book collects and explores the elaborately detailed pro-slavery arguments rooted in religion, law, politics, science, and economics.
Proslavery Argument: A Rhetorical Approach. A major activity in the antebellum South was the writing of. books, pamphlets, and magazine articles defending slavery. Pro slavery arguments were spread throughout the South, and were repeated in the lecture halls of the nation.
The abolitionist movement in antebellum America provoked a frenzy of pro-slavery reaction. With the very foundation of their society under assault from the 1830s onward, Southern planters, intellectuals and ministers penned countless speeches, essays, letters, and even poems in defense of bondage.
Sellers, Jr. and Ralph E. Morrow have characterized the argument as an attempt by slaveholders to establish peace not with other groups but with themselves, by alleviating feelings of guilt created by nagging contradic-tions between slavery and America's democratic creed. Although both
