Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Slavery as a positive good in the United States was the prevailing view of Southern politicians and intellectuals just before the American Civil War, as opposed to seeing it as a crime against humanity or a necessary evil. They defended the legal enslavement of people for their labor as a benevolent, paternalistic institution with social and ...
[54] [55] Rushdoony also asserted that even though antebellum American slavery was un-Biblical, it was still a positive good. [56] Jack Kershaw, who served as an attorney for James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., is famous for saying "Somebody needs to say a good word for slavery." [57] [58]
Calhoun was firmly convinced that slavery was the key to the success of the American dream. [131] Whereas other Southern politicians had excused slavery as a "necessary evil", in a famous speech on the Senate floor on February 6, 1837, Calhoun asserted that slavery was a "positive good". [4]
Eighth graders at a Texas charter school 'were asked to reflect on the differing sides of slavery' during an American History class,. Students asked to list 'positive' and 'negative' parts of ...
Harper is likely best remembered as an early and important representative of pro-slavery thought. His Memoir on Slavery, first given as a lecture in 1838, and reprinted in the Southern Literary Journal, classed Harper as a leading proponent of the notion that slavery was not merely a necessary evil, but as a positive social good.
Thomas Roderick Dew (December 5, 1802 – August 6, 1846) was a professor and public intellectual, then president of The College of William & Mary (1836–1846). [1] Although he first achieved national stature for opposing protective tariffs, today Dew may be best known for his pro-slavery advocacy.
50 inspirational quotes from U.S. presidents "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is ...
21. "Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. 22. "Wouldn’t you want to be absolutely positive that the folks ...