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Analysis of Arguments for the Slavery Institution

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Analysis of Arguments for the Slavery Institution

The foundation of this paper will highlight the following questions: How might southern apologists for slavery have used the northern “wage slave” discussed in the last chapter to justify slavery? To what extent do you agree with this argument? How did slaves use religious belief and kinship to temper their plight? Did this strategy play into the hands of slaveholders? How were non-slaveholding whites and “free people of color” affected by the institution of slavery?
From the perspective of a slave-owner, slavery may be paradise when compared to “wage slavery”. “Wage slaves” had to work in order to survive just like a slave, but in the case of a “wage slave”, the pay, no doubt, was …show more content…

The argument was presented very well. The argument of the slave-owners compared the treatment of southern slaves with laborers of the south, known as “wage slaves”. However, whether the argument is true or not is another thing. The slave-owners claimed to treat the slaves equally and care for them, but did they really do that, or were they somewhat “harsh” to the slaves? If they “cared” about their slaves so much, why didn’t they have a problem splitting up the families and loved ones in the slave communities? Yes, the argument of the slave-owners is pretty good, but when you look at the entire picture and take a peek into the real world of slavery, you have no choice but to question the declaration of the slave-owners’ “southern hospitality”.
Evidently, slavery wasn’t as nice as slave-owners claimed it to be. My reason for declaring the previous statement is the following: If slavery upholds the status or conditions that a slave-owners claims it to contain so well, then why do slaves have to turn to religion, Christianity in particular, to “temper their plight” or in English, soften their troubles? In the previous statement, the answer to the question was given. Christians turned to Christianity to criticize slavery and seek a better life after death.
In the case of non-slaveholding whites, they somewhat envied the slaveholders. Over two-thirds of whites did not own slaves, making the

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