Unveiling Pros of Slavery: A Historical Perspective

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In the eighteenth century slavery was all around. However, the mends were in store to make up for the unfounded actions of the past. By doing so, it punishes the people of today to make up for the wrongful doings of the people in the past. African Americans did suffer in the past from the injustice of slavery. Take in mind that it was the past, and the injustice of slavery does not affect African Americans in today’s day and time. White Americans in today’s day and time did not own or have anything to do with slavery. With this being said, I am presenting the pro-slavery side of slavery: the positive aspects of slavery and the justification of slavery, the stereotypes that promote the enslaved Africans/black Americans, proslavery socially and historically, how they describe the lives of men and women under slavery and how these men envision civilized society, attitudes these men had about slavery, and the reflective of racial prejudice. …show more content…

The Negros is not only better off as to physical comfort than free laborers, but their moral condition as well (Paragraph 2, George Fitzhugh). The slaves in the South loved life itself. The women only worked a little and yet were protected by their husbands and masters. The children and the elderly did not have to work at all. They were taken care of and had all of the necessary things that they needed. (Paragraph 3, George Fitzhugh advocates slavery) The masters of the slave justified in taking care of all the slaves’ even in the year that the word was suspended. The masters continued to feed and support their hired slaves (Excerpts from Edmund Ruffin, the Political Economy of

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