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“Slavery a Positive Good” - Southern Ideologies In Defense of Slavery

In the antebellum period, pro-slavery forces moved from defending slavery

as a necessary evil to expounding it as a positive good

Senator James Hammond (South Carolina) The "Mud-Sill" Theory

"In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill"

George Fitzhugh (1806-1881) was a social theorist who published radical racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era. He argued that "the Negro is but a grown up child" who needs the economic and social protections of slavery.

Senator John C. Calhoun's (South Carolina) “Slavery a Positive Good”

"Compare his condition with the tenants of the poor houses in the more civilized portions of Europe. Look at the sick, and the old and infirm slave, on the one hand, in the midst of his family and friends, under the kind superintending care of his master and mistress, and compare it with the forlorn and wretched condition of the pauper in the poorhouse . ."