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Pro Slavery Ideology in the 19th Century
  • Mark Jones
  • PowerPoint Introduction
  • WebQuest for 11th and 12th Grade

2
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.

3
What is Pro Slavery Ideology?
  • The beliefs and ideas by Southerners that are the
    basis for slaverys legitimacy.

4
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.

5
Northern Response
  • Many abolitionist in the North did not accept
    these arguments and wanted to know more about the
    basis for these arguments.

6
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.
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