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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.
Southern slaveholders often used biblical passages to justify slavery. Those who defended slavery rose to the challenge set forth by the Abolitionists. The defenders of slavery included economics, history, religion, legality, social good, and even humanitarianism, to further their 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.”
He discusses the internal slave trade that moved thousands of slaves from the eastern seaboard to the cotton states of the Southwest between 1820 and 1860. Professor Blight then sketches the contents of the pro-slavery argument, including its biblical, historical, economic, cynical, and utopian aspects.
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. They were used, too, by Southern political leaders seeking to defend themselves and
This article shows how the same fundamental questions raised by proslavery thought have consistently confronted not only modern scholars but also the very historical actors who battled over slavery's fate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
