The fundamental arguments for and against slaves?

Answer 1

The cotton gin was invented in the south making cotton the crop of choice for the plantation. They needed lots of cheap labor. The South's economy was dependent on her cotton productions so a threat of loosing slave labor was a serious threat to the south.

Answer 2

It is, mercifully a dead issue- Slavery is an obsolete social practice- but now and then there are cases of domestic servants that were close enough to merit prosecution-even in New York. The only argument that had any ground was similar to that advanced towards more or less enforced settlement of Farmers. In practice this meant they could not except under exceptional circumstances- change jobs ( unless joining the Armed Forces, or something exceptional). The grueling hours ( particularily before mechanization) went along the lines that this was admittedly a hard life, but one would have to be BORN to it- in other words a form of involuntary labor. They could up to a point use various forms of Propaganda ( some brightside- like the Four H clubs) but often offensive to keep the peasant in or on his place. then the arguments were- we have to maintain the food supply system- and so on. even to this day, peasantry is a Sneeze away from slavery.

Answer 3

The Southern arguments in favor of continuing slavery were the following:

A. The South was exporting almost 75% of the world's cotton and having to pay free men to work the cotton fields would drive up the cost of production. At one time cotton exports totaled 1/2 of all US exports.

B. The South argued that slaves were inferior people and slavery was the best thing for them as on their own they would not be able to survive. In other words, they were proclaiming that keeping Afro Americans as slaves was beneficial to them.

C. The US Constitution did not forbid slavery.

D. The US Congress had already "recognized slavery" as important and legitimate when it passed the "Great Compromise" which stated that the US should allow the importation of slaves to continue for 21 years. At the end of that period, in 1808, the US Congress carried out its intention and banned the human traffic from abroad, but within the South the internal buying & selling of slaves continued.

E. Southerners contended that Northern politicians were using the "humanitarian" case against slavery to cover up their true intent which was to bring freed slaves to work on Northern farms and factories at a cheap wage rate, undermining the white labor force in the North.

F. Southerners cited the Missouri Compromises as a case for retaining slavery in the South.

G. Southerners claimed that the evangelical anti slavery abolitionists were ignoring the fact that the Bible in no way forbid slavery. In fact they noted that the Bible even set forth rules on how to treat slaves.

H. Southerners claimed that the US Supreme Court sanctioned slavery by its decision in the Dred Scott case.

Answer 4

i have a slave and he serves me okay.

Answer 5

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