USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Arguments in favor of slavery include deference to the Bible and thus to God, some people being natural slaves in need of supervision, slaves often being better off than the poorest non-slaves, practical social benefit for the society as a whole, and slavery being a time-proven practice by multiple great civilizations.

Detailed explanation-2: -adjective. pro·slavery. (ˈ)prō+ : favoring slavery. specifically : favoring the continuance of or noninterference with slavery in the southern U.S. before the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-3: -One of the most vehement proponents of this argument was George Fitzhugh (1806–1881), a Virginia lawyer, writer, and slaveowner. He believed that civilization depended upon the exploitation of labor. This led him to ask which system-slavery or free labor-exploited workers less.

Detailed explanation-4: -Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton economy would collapse. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields. Rice would cease being profitable.