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White southerners responded by putting forth arguments in defense of slavery, their way of life, and their honor. Calhoun became a leading political theorist defending slavery and the rights of the South, which he saw as containing an increasingly embattled minority.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Southern pro-slavery theorists asserted that slavery eliminated this problem by elevating all free people to the status of "citizen", and removing the landless poor (the "mudsill") from the political process entirely by means of enslavement.
15 Ιουν 2023 · On the eve of the Revolution, the southern colonies of British North America had long constituted mature plantation-based slave societies, but slavery existed and was legally sanctioned throughout the continent, from Canada to Mexico.
