Slavery as a Positive Good

Was slavery an economic engine for the Southern economy before the Civil War? Men like Senator and businessman James Henry Hammond would say yes immediately without a second thought. People like Hammond believed that slavery in these times were critical to the growth of the southern economy. They made points such as that agricultural sales were a main percentage of business in the south and with the large area of fertile land that slave ownership was a necessary evil. Along with those, the decades preceding the civil war, the north began to industrialize, which in turn created a large demand for cotton, which was heavily supported by slavery. Not only was slavery a supporting crutch for the immense cotton market, but also slave trade proved to be a highly profitable market of his own. Finally, from the perspective of a plantation owner as a business enterprise, owning slaves proved to be most effective by implementing business strategies, much like Henry James Hammond’s. Without slavery, small planters would have been unable to make a steadfast profit, leaving the cotton industry to rely on large plantation owners who would mainly invest their fortune in British luxurious imports, instead of diversifying and reinvesting in schooling or infrastructure. I personally believe that James Henry Hammond and others were correct, with exception to my ethical beliefs, that slavery was a key factor in the growth and preservation of

The South has long been associated with the atrocities of slavery, segregation, and racial violence. The institution of slavery is one of the most atrocious identities of the South. White slave owners did not want to lose their superiority and had to find a way to keep their slaves in subordination. Slaveholders believed that by obstructing the slave population from gaining an education, especially in the method of reading and writing, they could keep their slaves and avoid rebellions that could lead to slaves gaining their freedom. White southerners during the antebellum period feared slave uprisings and chose to withhold education from their slaves in an attempt to maintain the southern identity of white superiority.

When thinking about a slave's health, most people would think of them as ill and sick. In reality, slaves sometimes had better health than the whites in the south. It was important to slave masters to keep slaves in the best condition possible. If their slaves became sick, they would not bring in as much money, affecting economic prospects of slave masters. Slaveholders paid large amounts of money to keep their slaves healthy. Not because they cared about the actual slave, but because they cared about the money they failed to bring in while sick (Busick 1,2,5). To slave masters, unhealthy slaves did nothing beneficial, making it important to give their slaves all the medical attention they needed to keep them healthy. Slaves could even receive

The South defended slavery felt they had the religious, racial backing to support their stance and were ultimately doing the slaves a service as they would not succeed if left to fend for themselves. Southern slave owners also deemed slaves intellectually inept to do anything more than be slaves as was seen in the mockery of slaves in minstrel shows. Southern slave owners also believed the slave was so racially inferior having a master to feed and clothe him was his salvation and therefore slavery was a good thing for black people. “Except that from inferiority, or rather peculiarity, of race, almost all negroes require masters” (Fitzhugh). Justifications for slavery even went so far as to say it was religiously acceptable as it dated back all the way back to the Egyptians and the Bible spewed verses asking servants to obey their masters. Ironically, opposition for slavery also stemmed from religion.

Slavery is an issue because it was very wrong in general because of how bad these slave are treated and how many slaves there are in America.people treated slaves like property instead of an actual person , slaves didn't have any rights. When a slave has a child they usually get separated from each other and work a different slave farm. There were a lot of people trying to end, but thanks to gag rule that can bring up slavery in debate or they will be punished.

Hello, I am Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the U.S.A. I have 10 children. Some of the names Daniel Smith and Andrew J Donelson. I was a smart kid and I read the laws for two straight hours. Also I was a great young lawyer. My three reasons why slavery can be beneficial are like building and expanding the railroads, Making Carpentry, working in a dairy farm with preserving food.

Chains, hate, and lashings are apart of so many individuals’ lives. Slavery shackles those subservient to an authoritative figure. Slavery has roots to the beginning of time, and there seems to have no indication of its end. Today society fight this pressing issue, but continuously come up short of stopping this abhorrent system. As Gilder states, slavery has been around for thousands of years. With that background information, Polaris shows that slavery is an ever evolving system with constant change, whether the changes are similar to old ways, or cultivating to the new generations as Kwiatkowski exemplifies.

Slavery was an evil institution. African Americans were ensnared and emphatically taken to a new land only to be bestowed the title slave. They were merely possessions with a reduced life expectancy due to them being exterted. African Americans were not only separated from their family and treated poorly, but when the land owners desired to make a little extra money. They would publicly display their slaves with or without attire only to be sold to the highest bidder. African Americans were humiliated and put on chains for a land called

Slavery is something that will help our country prosper in the future. Slavery will put us ahead of other countries in term of money. When you move to the south you have more stuff to do than the north. The west is full of diseases and tons of people who already migrated there leaving room for more people to earn money and live in the south. Why would you go to the north where you get paid so little money that you can barely feed your family. If you come to the south you get to control your prices and feed your family. You also get to co-exist with other races that you would not think living with. The west is already filled with people who are gold seekers if you go there you won't get a chance to get gold because there are too many people

HI, Joshua, thank you for the slavery summary, America’s success in wealth comes from the deaths of slaves. History uncovers the dark truths about how American became to wealth and power. If not for slavery, I wonder if America would be as strong a force as it stands today. The alarming aspect about the history of slavery is that pro-slavery followers justified their motives with scripture. However, it concerns me that slavery happens in the Bible. However, in Exodus that the Israelites fought for their freedom. Nonetheless, either slavery never disappeared, but went underground like the black-market trade of goods and services or America quietly disregarded slavery. It is unfathomable to me how slavery and human trafficking as grown to roughly

civilizations, slave labor built nations and empires in Europe, Egypt, Greece, Asia and Africa. Thousands of years later, the Portuguese, Dutch and English realized the profit value that a market in human capital would provide. Africans were exported from their homeland to the New World under the most miserable conditions imaginable. Prof. Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship, A Human History says, “We’re fascinated by all the tall ships except the most important one, and that’s the slave ship. And that one we can hardly bear to look at”. Slaves were packed like sardines

I agree I do find it odd that slavery is allowed in a Utopia society.

1. Slaves, means "captures" in the ancient world. In the modern slavery, it means cheap labors. After European found the New World, African slaves were introduced to the whole world. After 1450, slavery became one of the main thing that connected Africa to other places. In the article, I am very surprised that there are still huge slavery in the world. In Africa, many people, especially children are still suffering for unwilling works everyday. In the article, the author points out that slavey is always connecting to business and economy. Indeed, slaves are cheap and efficient, they are a lot cheaper than the formal workers. Base on these merits, slavey is the best tools to improve a country's economic and make more profits for individual company

Unfortunately, slavery was beneficial to the U.S economically. The U.S became the number one slavery business in the world since most of Europe banned slavery. Most of the slavery took place within the southern parts of the U.S. The large landowners of the south had access to fertile land,

My friends, slavery is a delicate system, like a spider’s web moving about in the wind. It catches many slaves like flies stuck in the web, knowing their doom is inevitable. The slave owners are the spiders, using the flies to further their livelihood and their estate. To the spiders, the flies are simply a means to an end, their worth only equivalent to the blood which they yield. The slave owners treat their slaves in a similar fashion, equating their worth to the amount of work they are able to do. A slave’s worth is infinitely more than the slaveowners give them credit for. God gave us all inherent dignity and worth that nobody can take away A spider’s web, while it catches flies, can be easily destroyed when a stone is thrown at it. Suddenly, the web which once caught many flies is gone, leaving the flies to live their own lives. What is the stone that will destroy slavery and lead to the freedom of slaves? I declare that education will bust a hole in the web of slavery that no slave owner can mend. I declare that slaves with the ability to write are already on the path to freedom. I declare that it is our job to educate the slaves, for the ability to read and write makes a slave into a man with thoughts and the will to be free!