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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.
19 Σεπ 2024 · The South and the Slavery Controversy covers the United States during the Antebellum Era, including the rise of King Cotton and the Planter Aristocracy in the South. During this era, the debate over Slavery intensified, as the Abolition Movement gained strength in the North.
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.
Slave escapes, Southern attempts to recapture escapees and kidnap free African Americans into slavery, Northern aid to the escapees and kidnap victims, and aggressive physical abolitionist interference with slavery in the South shaped this long conflict.
Several defenses of slavery were prevalent in the antebellum era, including Calhoun’s argument that the South’s “concurrent majority” could overrule federal legislation deemed hostile to southern interests; the notion that slaveholders’ care of their chattel made enslaved people better off than wage workers in the North; and the ...
It was argued that the way of life on Southern plantations depended entirely on slavery for profit and that to turn the plantation system into the factory system of the North would not only destroy the Southern way of life; it would also emancipate millions of people who would be ill equipped to cope for themselves.
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.
