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5 pages. This paper details the southern pro slavery argument and accounts for why it continued despite abolitionist criticism. Southerners increasingly defended slavery as a positive good rather than a necessary evil. Also looks at why southern pro emancipation sentiment declined. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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positive good rather than a necessary evil. Also looks at why southern pro emancipation sentiment declined. THE PRO SLAVERY ARGUMENT According to Richard Colfax in his book Evidence
Against the Views of the Abolitionists, Consisting of Physical and Moral Proofs, of the Natural Inferiority of the Negroes (1833), one could tell simply by looking at a negro that
their facial structure was entirely different from that of a white man. Because of this, because of the prominent lips, eyes, and receding forehead, among other differences, that with
"all of these peculiarities at the same time contributing to reduce his facial angle almost to a level with that of the brute--Can any such man become great or elevated?"
That Southerners considered the negro less than a human being is an understatement. They were considered a type of animal, and were not allowed to do anything the white
people were able to do in the way of reading and writing. They were treated as livestock, and felt to be fully and completely owned by their masters.
Most Southerners felt nothing about breaking up families, selling babies without their mothers, no more so than if they were selling horses or cattle. The thoughts were that because the
Master provided a slaves entire living, giving him food, shelter, and in effect, his life, then the slave owed his entire life to his master, giving him every ounce of
his energy and working his fingers until they bled. It was just naturally assumed that this is the way everyone thought, and there was no guilty conscience about the
way people felt about slavery in the South. Slavery was a fact of life, and it was a mainstay for the large cotton plantations of the time.
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