AMERICAN HISTORY - Why does the South believe that slavery is "morally and politically right"? ?

Because "slavery" was an accepted practice in the Bible, However, the way the US used slavery is not how it was used in the Bible. Taken out of context from the Bible is how people legitimize it or deemed it moral. Slavery in the Bible was voluntary. A person volunteered to slavery to pay back a debt or to purchase something they did not have the means to pay for. A person was only held a "slave" until the debt was paid. It was not forced slavery. At that period of time people based their "morality" and "Legality" on Biblical principles and practice, and so taken out of Biblical context is how it was justified. Only later did slave owners resort to Race inferiority as another justification for enslavement (and profitability). It's important to recognize that slaves were banned from, and punished if found, learning to read or write thereby creating the impression that they were inferior by the people that enslaved them (how convenient). Remember "he who has the gold makes the rules" and plantation owners utilizing slaves had lots of money. Those that answered that slavery was justified by mere means of profitability are partially correct. If there was nothing to be gained by slavery then it could be argued that slavery would not have been.

The South believed that slavery was necessary because of the inferiority of the black race.

Throughout the time of slavery, there was this issue of inferiority. Pro slavers felt that it was cruel to educate African Americans. Keep in mind African Americans were not allowed to read. If you want to read something about it, you should read Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia." This was a racist document composed by Jefferson describing the various ways that he thought African Americans were inferior. Also, look at the stereotypes of African Americans such as Nat, Sambo, and Jack. This should give you a start if you really want to know more bout African American Slavery in the Antebellum South.

The South was mostly an agrarian society at the time, and it needed a large population to work the fields. Lacking a manufacturing base, all the South produced was raw material, like cotton. The raw material was then sold to mills in the north and in England, where things like clothes were produced. Of course if someone in the south wanted to buy clothes, they had to buy them from from the North or from England.

Well you cannot get rich that way, cause the cotton in the clothes costs you more to buy than you earned by selling that amount of cotton in the first place. So to keep the cost of production down, the South insisted that it needed slaves. which is incredibly cheap labor.

That's the economic basis of slavery. Since the South needed slaves economically, that provided a basis for a politics that found slavery right. And to justify the morality of slavery, the South did not enslave white Christian folk, but instead took what they deemed to be "uncivilized" natives of Africa. Some Southerners like Jeff Davis actually thought he was helping the natives get civilized and learn about Christianity, and to them that sounded a whole lot better )more moral) than leaving the Africans to sit outside their huts and wear loin clothes.

The North believed in slavery too. They didn't get the bad rap for it because they didn't have the huge plantations, but there were all sorts of abuses throughout the North. Also, the slave trade was mostly run by people from the North, and that whole business was centered there and continued to take place even after it was abolished in 1808 or whatever. It's important to remember that, cuz the racism persists in the North AND the South.

Hey actually the south had no such belief i'm a confederate civil war reenacter (i dress up in old-timer clothes and pretended i was in that era and given 2 presentations in my school even though i'm only 11 i've done this since i was 3 and ALL of the of the people i do this with say that they didn't believe this and that was just a nasty rumor that lots of union soldiers spread but they were raised like that and most treated their slaves well and quite a few even payed their slaves and you never heard this from bound-out children (that means that their parents died or gave them up young until they were 21 )and it was the same thing even though just the north (union) did it and they were often treated worse but the south REALLY didn't believe this and anyone who disagrees with this can email me at supreme123412@yahoo.com

The second one.

To lash back at the growing abolitionist movement, Southerners argued that slaves were

1) inferior as a race

2) being Christianized and civilized by their masters

3) permitted by the Bible

4) present in America since 1619

5) producing large amounts of cotton for the North and other places that needed the raw material

6) better off than in the North, where discrimination did not help blacks get jobs

7) part of southern families, instead of alone on the streets of Northern cities

only because they profited immensely with the free labor did they support slavery. saying that this was moral was only a rationalization to justify the horror they inflicted upon slaves. Imagine the families broken when a brother, sister, child, husband or wife was sold to someone else! slavery was and is morally wrong.

Where did you get your "quote"? Even if someone from the South is saying this that doesn't mean that ALL Southerners believe that way.

They believed in the morality and political necessity of slavery because the income of the South's richest families depended on it!

people are habitual, by that i mean that we do what has been done before us. if our parents thought slavery was ok then we would, for the most part. it also meant their economy falling due to lack of cheap or free labor. the north also did horrible things to people in the south which i think in the end led to more hate and animosity between them than the original reasons they were fighting.