"Be It Good or Bad,it [Slavery] Has Grown Up with Our

question 29

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"Be it good or bad,it [slavery] has grown up with our society and institutions,and is so interwoven with them,that to destroy it would be to destroy us as a people.But let me not be understood as admitting,even by implication,that the existing relations between the two races in the slaveholding States is an evil: far otherwise;I hold it to be a good....I appeal to facts.Never before has the black race of Central Africa,from the dawn of history to the present day,attained a condition so civilized and so improved,not only physically,but morally and intellectually.It came to us in a low,degraded,and savage condition,and in the course of a few generations,it has grown up under the fostering care of our institutions,reviled they have been,to its present comparatively civilized condition.This,with the rapid increase of numbers,is conclusive proof of the general happiness of the race,in spite of all the exaggerated tales to the contrary.... I may say with truth,that in few countries so much is left to the share of the laborer,and so little exacted from him,or where there is more kind attention paid to him in sickness or infirmities of age.Compare his condition with the tenants of the poor houses in the more civilized portions of Europe-look at the sick,and the old and infirm slave,on one hand,in the midst of his family and friends,under the kind superintending care of his master and mistress,and compare it with the forlorn and wretched condition of the pauper in the poor house."
Which of the following did John Calhoun give as a justification to allow the South to remain a slave society?

• A) Slavery improved slaves' spiritual lives by teaching them Christianity.
• B) Slavery was still legal in other countries.
• C) Slaves were better off than their laboring counterparts in Europe.
• D) Without slavery,poor whites would have no way to distinguish themselves from blacks.

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