The basic one was that God wanted them to have slaves. They used The Bible to substantiate this idea. Another one was that slaves were happy to be a slave and without slavery they would be hungry and without anything.
Religious. They said it was a sin against humanity.
Southerners hated abolitionists because they would speak out against slavery. If there was no slaves than no one would work the fields for the rich men.
Northern abolitionists faced significant obstacles in disseminating their ideas to southerners due to strict laws and societal norms that suppressed anti-slavery sentiments in the South. The publication of abolitionist literature was often banned, and the postal service was used to censor or intercept abolitionist materials. Additionally, the pervasive culture of fear and violence against abolitionists and their sympathizers in the South stifled open dialogue and made it dangerous for southerners to engage with or express abolitionist views. As a result, the messages of abolitionists struggled to penetrate the deeply entrenched pro-slavery attitudes of the Southern states.
Pro-slavery southerners argued that abolitionists threatened their way of life and livelihood by advocating for the end of slavery, which they believed would destabilize society and the economy in the South. They also believed that slaves were inferior and incapable of taking care of themselves without the guidance of their owners, and that abolishing slavery would lead to social chaos.
AntislaveryAntislavery means against slavery.
Southerners are against LGBT because it goes against their collective values
quaker abolitionists.
The prefix of "abolitionists" is "ab-" which means "away from" or "against."
bleeding Texas I think
abolitionists argued that slavery was morally wrong
abolitionists argued that slavery was morally wrong
Abolitionists such as William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, and Olaudah Equiano argued against the continuation of the slave trade. They used moral, ethical, and religious arguments to push for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.