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The southern states justified their use of slavery in many ways. They claimed that White people were superior, and that God had created Blacks below Whites to be used as their slaves. They also said that Black people were ignorant, lazy, and unintelligent and therefore needed to be controlled by White masters. They claimed that they were actually doing the Black people and the economy a favor, by saying that Black people could not support themselves and would become beggars. This reasoning is obviously very flawed and disgusting today, but back then not many questioned it. (White) Children were raised thinking that Blacks below Whites was just natural and correct.

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