Pro Slavery Ideology in the 19th Century

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Pro Slavery Ideology in the 19th Century

• Mark Jones
• PowerPoint Introduction
• WebQuest for 11th and 12th Grade

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Slavery in the South

• During the mid 1800s many in the North were
  beginning to demand an end to slavery in the
  United States.
• Slave-owners in the South were forced to begin
  developing arguments for why slavery should
  continue.

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What is Pro Slavery Ideology?

• The beliefs and ideas by Southerners that are the
  basis for slaverys legitimacy.

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Most Common Arguments

• The most commonly used justifications for slavery
  were that the slaves were racially inferior, it
  was justified by the Bible, science showed them
  to be a separate species of humans, and that
  great civilizations such as the Greeks and Romans
  had slaves. Some even claimed that blacks were
  happier as slaves.

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Northern Response

• Many abolitionist in the North did not accept
  these arguments and wanted to know more about the
  basis for these arguments.

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Report on the Pro Slavery Ideologies

• You and your classmates will become Northern
  newspaper reports.
• Report on the evidence being used to present each
  argument for slavery.
• You will use the internet to find these arguments
  and the basis behind them.