Southern Justification of Slavery

Ideas and Movements

The following arguments were put forth in Southern books, pamphlets and newspapers to defend the institution of slavery:

• Slavery was good for the slaves; the slaveowners took on the burden of caring for the interests of inferior beings, seeing that they would be fed, clothed and given religious instruction.
• In a comparative sense, Southern slaves were better off than many of the immigrant workers in Northern factories who were confined in unhealthy workplaces for long hours.
• Slavery was the key to national prosperity—for both the North and the South; nearly 60 percent of U.S. exports of this era were cotton; the slavery advocates argued that if their economy were tampered with, the great industrial cities of the North would crumble; many Southerners viewed the North as a parasite, nourishing itself on slavery while at the same time criticizing it.
• Slavery was vital for the continuance of a superior Southern lifestyle which emphasized good manners and graciousness; they did not want to become like the fast-paced, money-grubbing North.

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  To Tax Or Not To Tax: The Rights and Justification of Parliament in Question
  All of these acts were protested in America and, eventually, the authority of Parliament in the American colonies came to be questioned by the colonists. In the mid-eighteenth century, the previously mentioned members of Parliament took their ...
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  Pics Of Child Slavery
  Slavery ended for hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks well before the Confederate surrender, as Union troops occupied larger and larger areas of the South and as increasing numbers of slaves fled from their owners and sought refuge within ...
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  Slavery
  With his claims of a God ordained institution of slavery, coupled with the Black Republican intent to eliminate slavery, he painted a picture for the Maryland legislature of an isolated South infiltrated with Republican agents, whose sole intent ...
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