Pros And Cons Of Proslavists

What are proslavists? These were the ones that were in favor of slavery. Proslavists denied things like freedom, liberty, and equality to an entire population of black people with the ideas about science, religion, economics, etc. The ideas were that proslavists thought that slaves would help them economically by picking up their crops. In addition, they would have to have enough slaves to work in their plantation, if not, proslavists would not get any profit for their crops. In fact, the idea of proslavists being in favor of slavery made people believe things that came from the bible. Not to mention, John C. Calhoun argued that defending slavery was to the road of American freedom.
John C. Calhoun was the seventh vice president of the United States of American. He was considered the strongest defender of slavery. He argued that slavery was the road to the American freedom. “Many in the South once believed that it was a moral and political evil; that folly and delusion are gone; we see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world.” (John C. Calhoun Sees “Slavery in its true light…” (1838). He said that the for this political system to be balance blacks and whites have to get along. People killing each other are only causing more destruction to the population. His idea was that if all …show more content…
Calhoun thinking slavery was the road to American freedom, and proslavists saying that slaves helped them economically was why overall proslavists defended slavery as a whole. Proslavists thought it was required to have slavery to benefit them as a whole. Without having slavery in the population, there would be a lot of damage to the population in addition, to both races. For example, blacks being lazy and not working. Whites being affected by this because of getting no beneficial income from their crops. Overall, proslavists defend slavery to the ideas to what they