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Defenses of Slavery

hey if anyone could help me out with this essay it would be much appreciated..

"Analyze the ways in which supporters of slavery in the nineteenth century used legal, religious, and economic arguments to defend the institution of slavery."

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Wage slavery was used as a postive good. that is all the comes off of top of head
there were many positive goods though

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what is wage slavery?

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i know this is a kind of easy topic but i really need some help...the essay is due tom. and i don't have my book and i cant find anything online..maybe i'm just searching for the wrong stuff but if anyone has any advice, maybe examples of the legal and religous arguments. i think i have stuff for the economic part

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Sites for Wage Slavery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/nation/es_wages.html

Wage Slavery I think is probably an economic reason. I'm not really up on my slavery info though, so forgive my short response. Umm, religious I'm pretty sure they argued that slavery was in the Bible. Legal, I think their arguement was that it wasn't directly mentioned in the constitution. That or that they considered slaves as property and that the government had no right to take property. I'm pretty sure it's the latter. Dred Scott v. Sanford I think can be used here. but like I said, I'm not entirely sure.

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thank you!

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Think about this:

Most if not all of the big players in the founding of our country (Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, etc.) had slaves yet proclaimed freedom and equality in their words and actions. Slavery allowed this men time to start and sustain a revolution because they themselves did not have to do the manual labor jobs that were required of that day. They had the slaves do that. Slavery also allowed them to be away from home for long of time beause there was enough workers to take care of the family estate.

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ahh it nice to know that im not the only one who procrastinated on this essay haha
so far i have:
Legal-slaves were property/dred scott case
Religious-biblical references that sanctioned slavery and particularly the enslaving of the black race
Economic-wage slavery

right?

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Looks right to me. I think that the people who already posted finished this essay a while ago, so I'm not sure how much input you can get from them.

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For this I'm having major issues on coming up with a theis. Can I maybe get some help in what to inclue or how to mention the economic, legal and religious sides?

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