Proslavery Argument
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Philosophy, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Economics
- Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Slavery, Slaves, Human Rights, Abolition movement, Abolitionists
- Curriculum: African American History, American History 1816-1855
- Geographical Location: United States
- Date: 1830-1865
Article abstract: The intellectual bond among Southerners who see slavery as a moral institution, in opposition to Northern abolitionists.
Summary of Event
In the quarter-century preceding the Civil War, Southerners advanced a wide range of arguments and theories—some old, some new—to justify the institution of chattel slavery. The distinctiveness of proslavery thinking during the years before the Civil War lay less in its content than in its tone or spirit. Defenders of the South’s “peculiar institution” were no longer on the defensive; their...
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