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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.
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.
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.
19 Σεπ 2024 · Pro-slavery arguments deepened the divide between the backward-looking South and the progressive North, as well as much of the Western world. Southern whites became defensive, reacting to their fears and the relentless criticism from northern abolitionists.
A SOUTHERN STEWARDSHIP: THE INTELLECTUAL AND THE PROSLAVERY ARGUMENT DREW GILPIN FA UST University of Pennsylvania THE SOUTH S SYSTEMATIC DEFENSE OF SLAVERY IN THE THREE decades before the Civil War has long puzzled historians. Yet the very distastefulness of the proslavery argument has intrigued modern scholars,
Analyze how pro-slavery arguments influenced political debates surrounding slavery leading up to the Civil War. Pro-slavery arguments significantly influenced political debates as tensions heightened between Northern abolitionists and Southern defenders of slavery.
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.
