Slavery Argumentative Analysis

My opinion on slavery is that it shouldn't be allowed because everybody should be treated equally. Slavery should not be allowed because it's not right to have someone do your work just because there a different color. Slavery should not be allowed im going to tell you why here is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. Slavery has always existed. This reason exemplifies the logical fallacy argumentum ad the argument to antiquity or tradition. Nevertheless, it often persuaded people, especially those of …show more content…
The unspoken corollary is that every society must have slavery. The pervasiveness of an institution seems to many people to constitute compelling proof of its necessity. Perhaps, as one variant maintains, every society has slavery because certain kinds of work are so difficult or degrading that no free person will do them, and therefore unless we have slaves to do these jobs, they will not get done. Someone, as the saying went in the Old South, has to be the mud sill, and free people will not tolerate serving in this capacity. The slaves are not capable of taking care of themselves. This idea was popular in the United States in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries among people, such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who regarded slavery as morally reprehensible yet continued to hold slaves and to obtain personal services from them and income from the products these “servants” were compelled to produce. It would be cruel to set free people who would then, at best, fall into destitution and suffering. Where the common people are free, they are even worse off than