It's bizarre to me that with as much discourse in the context of slavery, that nobody ever talks about *how* people used to support slavery. This horror used to be a wildly popular thing everybody took for granted and we somehow just *aren't* curious about their reasoning for it?
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Some relevant wiki articles:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Tom_
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_a
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatis
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I think people understand what's important to understand here: the fact that slave-owners benefitted from slavery, therefore they came up with rationalizations to keep supporting it, which is just human nature. The rest is all details.
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Maybe i just studied too much social history in college but I'm surprised you say this isn't discussed. It feels like a fairly popular topic in my readings. Honestly though sometimes impact over intent seems more relevant.
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I would be surprised if it *wasn't* discussed in that sort of literature; I was intending to refer more to 'popular discourse' outside of specific studying
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Ask people in modern India how they still support having c. 15 million people in slavery.
This isn't a purely historical or purely American issue.
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A natural follow up question is, what do we take for granted today that future generations will look back on with horror?
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Best thing I read on the topic is by & . Basically, once slavery was no longer a matter of economic survival for the South a new story quickly proliferated that owning slaves is actually charity to those who can't support themselves.
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There were Marxist arguments for slavery
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