no oliver ellsworth did not support slavery.
they supported slavery
Was James McHenry for or against anti-slavery
Because slavery was the mainstay of the cotton industry.
Yes
Northern workers opposed slavery; southern planters support it
Because it was easier to have slaves work the fields then to hire people or do it themselves.
Southern planters believed that if slaves learned to read, it would weaken the system of slavery.
Yeoman farmers resented rich planters because they wielded significant economic and political power. However, they still supported slavery because they believed it was essential for maintaining the social and economic hierarchy that benefited them as white landowners. Slavery provided them with a cheap labor source and allowed them to compete economically with the planters.
Southern planters believed that the system of slavery would be weakened by abolitionist movements, slave rebellions, and economic factors such as declining profitability of slave labor.
the Southern planters thought that slavery shouldn't be ended for they needed the slaves for their crops
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So that the poor whites could have slaves get thangs for them
Originally in the South as a source for farming, income, and other necessities for planters and farmers.
enslaved African workers
Many slaves were Baptists, and a lot of Baptist preachers spoke out against slavery. The white planters needed those slaves to work for them, so often times the planters were opposed to Baptist preaching.
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