In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson writes that slavery teaches slave owners how to become tyrants.
The slave trade was legally abolished in the United States in 1807.
The three-fifths clause in the Constitution was a compromise to secure the ratification of the Constitution.
Progress toward emancipation stopped, and then reversed, due to the invention of the cotton gin and more adaptable strains of cotton, the growing attachment to an aristocratic society, and an overt rejection of the principles of the founding.
John C. Calhoun articulated a new ideology which held that slavery was a positive good.
According to the political theory of John C. Calhoun, liberty is a reward for moral and intellectual development.
John C. Calhoun argued that human beings receive their rights as members of a group, and not as individuals.
Dr. Portteus asserts that the pro-slavery critiques of Northern working conditions resemble the arguments of Karl Marx.
Source: “Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution”
Dr. Portteus is right. The slave owners back then were early progressives. They didn’t like the Constitution and were elitists with a superiority-complex (which is kind of redundant.)
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