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-I don't agree with this: "Without slavery, there would be widespread unemployment and chaos."

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Dew denied that slavery was unchristian, immoral, or undemocratice

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the enslaved were better off as slaves than being left to "helplessly defend themselves"

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-I don't believe that if there wasn't slavery,

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Slave defenders claimed that slaves were cared for better than those in the Northern states and in Europe...

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-I don't believe that she

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Unemployment would sky rocket, the economy would not flow.

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Slave defenders claimed that slaves were cared for better than those in the Northern states and in Europe...

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Slave defenders claimed that slaves were cared for better than those in the NOrthern states and in Europe

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Slave defenders claimed that slaves were cared for better than

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Slave defenders claimed that slaves were

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Slave defenders claimed that slaves were

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No slaves, no economy.

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If all slaves were freed, there would be widespread unemployment and chaos. There would be uprisings and bloodsheds

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If all slaves were freed, there would be widespread unemployment and chaos. There would be uprisings and bloodsheds

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"A MERRIER BEING DOES NOT EXIST ON THE FACE OF THE GLOBE, THAN THE NEGRO SLAVE"

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"A MERRIER BEING DOES NOT EXIST ON THE FACE OF THE GLOBE, THAN THE NEGRO SLAVE"

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what kinda??????????

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Slaves have better living arrangements then poor people in Europe so they should be happy.

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"Some slaveholders believed that African Americans were biologically inferior to their masters."

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all blacks were property and the slave holders' rights to their property were protected by the constitution

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A minister - ""The parties in this conflict are not merely Abolitionists and slaveholders, they are Atheists, Socialists, Communists, Red Republicans, Jacobins on the one side and the friends of order and regulated freedom on the other."

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it was ok because jesus never spoke out against it

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if the Bible doesn't specifically say you can't do it, it's totally okay!

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If the children of Israel themselves were slaveholders, then there is no reason for slavery to be considered immoral.

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"Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually."

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Thomas R. Dew's Defense of Slavery, 1852 

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Thomas R. Dew's Defense of Slavery, 1852 

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States being a slave does not necessarily mean you are not equal to those who aren't.

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slavery was a natural state of mind because it existed for so long.

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All "blacks" had no legal standings. They were property.

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according to the Christians, slaves were treated with "parental kindness" and were incorporated into their master's family. "Slaves were better off by appeal to the good treatment they received from their masters" 

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according to the Christians, slaves were treated with "parental kindness" and were incorporated into their master's family. "Slaves were better off by appeal to the good treatment they received from their masters" 

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Abolishing slavery was bad for the economy

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Slaves were actually treated good by their masters.

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They argued that slavery existed in history and "was the natural state of mankind." The Greeks, Romans, and English all had slaves.

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People accepted that slavery was a way of life and its horrors were out of sight so they were out of mind

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suddenly ending slavery would damage the southern economy because slave slave labor was the foundation of thei

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Americans on the continent didn't personally witness the horrors of Africans being ripped from their homelands, so they didn't concern themselves with it

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They believed that their economy depended on the slaves and if they let the slaves be free there would be "chaos and unemployment" So they believed that they were only helping the slaves by torturing them and enslaving them. They also thought it was natural because since it "had always been a part of history"

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Reformed Christians believed as "God's Chosen People", they were allowed to enslave "inferior races. (Justification via Religion)

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Slavery was beneficial spiritually, morally, and materially

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would lead to uprisings,

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"... a merrier being does not exist on the face of the globe, than the negro slave"

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there is no rule of
conscience or revealed law of God which can condemn us. T

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"...there is no rule of
conscience or revealed law of God which can condemn us. "

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"As God's chosen people, they believed to had the right to enslave inferior nations."

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Slavery was considered the christian way and even back in Israel slavery existed in the old days. Neither new nor old testament said anything about slavery being immoral.
-Mirza

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Christians believed that as God's chosen people, they had the right to enslave the "inferior nations"

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it "brought Christianity to the heathen from across the ocean"

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Every previous wealth and "civilized" society had one portion of the community to live off the labor of the other

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Without slavery, there was thought to be a widespread of unemployment and chaos. There would also be no crops produced.

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-Christianity and white supremacy were interlaced.
-I do not believe that the slave and the master "sat down at the same table and shared the same viands."
-Slavery is a true form of aristocracy

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slavery is "christian, moral, and democratic"

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slavery is "christian, moral, and democratic"

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Thomas R. Dew

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People in both the Old and New Testament had slaves and they were not punished for it so Christians believed that it was acceptable.

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Cotton, tobacco and rice economy would collapse, widespread unemployment if slaves were freed. In the Bible,
Abraham had slaves.

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Ibrahim!