isn’t really a strong religious argument to justify slavery. They said that a lot of people from the Bible had servants and slaves. According to the southerners: who are humans to object what god has ordained? By looking upon scriptures of the bible, the southerners found a religious sanction for holding slavery. Among the most farcical defense of slavery is that the enslavement is good for the slaves. They (the slave owners) thought that the slaves were content and happy under the care of the master and his family. They believed that the talks of freedom and liberty among the slaves were trivial because slaves did not understand these concepts. Finally the slave owners argue that the slaves were better off than the “wage workers” of the north were. The employers of the north did not care for the workers; planters had an investment in their slaves. They fed, clothed, and sheltered their slaves. The slaveholders indulge in their dream thinking they are the most kind of masters. However, “If slaves are so well off, why doesn’t everyone want to be a slave?” The southerners truly convinced themselves that holding slaves were for their (the slaves) own good. Those that opposed to accept slavery as a positive good were silenced or exiled.After 1832, public talks of slavery and it’s abolishment abruptly ended in the south. All parts of the white society supported slavery, whether or not they owned slaves. The southerners not only wanted to counter the abolitionists, but to quell the antislavery movement altogether. In 1835, the South Carolina legislature called upon the northern states to prohibit any print or document that cause a slave revolt. This clearly states that South Carolina believes that slavery is up to the state. Any attempt to interfere would be unlawful. The south defended slavery by saying it was beneficial to the Southern economy as well as the slaves themselves and...
