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   From: HeinzSpanknobel@hoo.com   
      
   There's a very compelling and strong argument for white American Christians   
   to own black slaves.   President Trump is doing a good job at ridding our   
   history of leftist antislavery propaganda and lies, so now is the time to   
   bring it back.   
      
   The Southern Argument for Slavery   
      
   Southern slaveholders often used biblical passages to justify slavery.   
      
   Those who defended slavery rose to the challenge set forth by the   
   Abolitionists. The defenders of slavery included economics, history,   
   religion, legality, social good, and even humanitarianism, to further their   
   arguments.   
      
   Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would   
   have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where reliance   
   on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton economy   
   would collapse. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields. Rice would cease   
   being profitable.   
      
   Defenders of slavery argued that if all the slaves were freed, there would   
   be widespread unemployment and chaos. This would lead to uprisings,   
   bloodshed, and anarchy. They pointed to the mob's "rule of terror" during   
   the French Revolution and argued for the continuation of the status quo,   
   which was providing for affluence and stability for the slaveholding class   
   and for all free people who enjoyed the bounty of the slave society.   
   The Negro's Place in Nature   
   Some slaveholders believed that African Americans were biologically   
   inferior to their masters. During the 1800s, this arguement was taken quite   
   seriously, even in scientific circles.   
      
   Defenders of slavery argued that slavery had existed throughout history and   
   was the natural state of mankind. The Greeks had slaves, the Romans had   
   slaves, and the English had slavery until very recently.   
      
   Defenders of slavery noted that in the Bible, Abraham had slaves. They   
   point to the Ten Commandments, noting that "Thou shalt not covet thy   
   neighbor's house, ... nor his manservant, nor his maidservant." In the New   
   Testament, Paul returned a runaway slave, Philemon, to his master, and,   
   although slavery was widespread throughout the Roman world, Jesus never   
   spoke out against it.   
      
   Defenders of slavery turned to the courts, who had ruled, with the Dred   
   Scott Decision, that all blacks — not just slaves — had no legal standing   
   as persons in our courts — they were property, and the Constitution   
   protected slave-holders' rights to their property.   
      
   Defenders of slavery argued that the institution was divine, and that it   
   brought Christianity to the heathen from across the ocean. Slavery was,   
   according to this argument, a good thing for the enslaved. John C. Calhoun   
   said, "Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of   
   history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so   
   improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually."   
      
   Defenders of slavery argued that by comparison with the poor of Europe and   
   the workers in the Northern states, that slaves were better cared for. They   
   said that their owners would protect and assist them when they were sick   
   and aged, unlike those who, once fired from their work, were left to fend   
   helplessly for themselves.   
      
   James Thornwell, a minister, wrote in 1860, "The parties in this conflict   
   are not merely Abolitionists and slaveholders, they are Atheists,   
   Socialists, Communists, Red Republicans, Jacobins on the one side and the   
   friends of order and regulated freedom on the other."   
      
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