Pro-slavery arguments

Some proslavery advocates used the Bible to defend slavery, citing passages that counseled servants to obey their masters. Southern slave owners argued that slavery benefited blacks by making them part of a prosperous and Christian civilization. Slave owners invented the myth of the happy slave, a cherished addition to the plantation family. A slave owner, George Fitzhugh, argued that whereas Northern mill owners fired their workers when they became too old or sick to work, Southerners cared for their slaves for a lifetime.

Proslavery propaganda