LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Biblical passages.
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Ideas from Greco-Roman societies and culture.
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The idea that paternal nature of Southern slavery was more humane than Northern free market capitalism.
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All of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The South relied on slavery heavily for economic prosperity and used wealth as a way to justify enslavement practices.
Detailed explanation-2: -the justification for slavery, as a way of actually caring for the slaves is called what. self-preservation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Slavery is the practice of forced labor and restricted liberty. It is also a regime where one class of people-the slave owners-could force another-the slaves-to work and limit their liberty.
Detailed explanation-4: -The specific clauses of the Constitution related to slavery were the Three-Fifths Clause, the ban on Congress ending the slave trade for twenty years, the fugitive slave clause, and the slave insurrections.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ivory, gold and other trade resources attracted Europeans to West Africa. As demand for cheap labour to work on plantations in the Americas grew, people enslaved in West Africa became the most valuable ‘commodity’ for European traders. Slavery existed in Africa before Europeans arrived.