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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.
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.
8 Οκτ 2024 · Proslavery arguments in the South were economic, religious, historical, and social. Southern whites argued that their economy would collapse without slave labor. This was the "necessary evil"...
How did proponents of slavery in antebellum America defend it as a positive good? Understanding With an argument that was as much a critique of industrialism as it was a defense of slavery, Southern spokesmen contended that chattel slavery, as it was practiced in the American South, was more humane than the system of “wage slavery” that
27 Ιουν 2018 · In 1874, for instance, the Southern Methodists’ General Convention reaffirmed their “attitudes and actions in the antebellum period,” historian Elizabeth L. Jemison writes in her exploration of proslavery Christianity after Emancipation.
significance of the defense of slavery in the interaction among different groups within the antebellum South. In 1936, William B. Hesseltine ex-plained the movement as part of an effort by the upper-class planter to win the nonslaveholder to his side. More recent scholars such as Charles G.
