Pro and anti-pro arguments on slavery All right everyone. We are having a vote on slavery. We will have two arguments for each, pro-slavery and anti slavery. Listen wisely so that you are able to vote on the argument that you agree with. So up first we have the reasons on why we should have slavery.
Pro-slavery
(Southerner) I believe that the end to slavery would bring our economy down. There will be a great impact on the economy in the South because slave labor is the foundation of our economy. The cotton economy would fall. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields. Rice would stop being productive. I believe that if slavery ended, there would be so many without unemployment and there would be much chaos. This would prompt to uprisings, slaughter, and disorder. I and other pro-slavery Southerners contended that slavery had existed all through history and was the characteristic condition of humanity. The Greeks had slaves, the Romans had slaves, and the English had subjection until as of late. I even noticed that in the Bible, Abraham had slaves. …show more content…
Pro-slavery southerners of slavery and myself swung to the courts, who had ruled, with the Dred Scott Decision, that all blacks, not simply slaves, had no legitimate remaining as people in our courts, they were property, and the Constitution secured slave-holders' rights to their property. I contended that the foundation was divine, and that it conveyed Christianity to the heathen from over the sea. Bondage was, by contention, something worth being thankful for the
Pro-slavery
(Southerner) I believe that the end to slavery would bring our economy down. There will be a great impact on the economy in the South because slave labor is the foundation of our economy. The cotton economy would fall. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields. Rice would stop being productive. I believe that if slavery ended, there would be so many without unemployment and there would be much chaos. This would prompt to uprisings, slaughter, and disorder. I and other pro-slavery Southerners contended that slavery had existed all through history and was the characteristic condition of humanity. The Greeks had slaves, the Romans had slaves, and the English had subjection until as of late. I even noticed that in the Bible, Abraham had slaves. …show more content…
Pro-slavery southerners of slavery and myself swung to the courts, who had ruled, with the Dred Scott Decision, that all blacks, not simply slaves, had no legitimate remaining as people in our courts, they were property, and the Constitution secured slave-holders' rights to their property. I contended that the foundation was divine, and that it conveyed Christianity to the heathen from over the sea. Bondage was, by contention, something worth being thankful for the