Slavery a Positive Good- Southern Ideologies in Defense of Slavery
In the antebellum period, pro-slavery forces moved from defending slavery as a necessary evil to expounding it as a positive good
South Carolina Senator James Hammond (1807 to 1864) The "Mud-Sill" Theory
American Social Theorist George Fitzhugh (1806-1881)
South Carolina Politician William Joseph Harper (1790 to 1847)
South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun's “Slavery a Positive Good”