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Oh Okay A pushers We've got another passage for you

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A long one here So we'll just do a light

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skin Madeline and union killings as friends you know render

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blood because slavery is going But I take higher ground

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holding president slavery a positive good from John Calhoun Yes

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You can imagine what this is about are the question

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John Calhoun's argument in the excerpt provides evidence for which

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of the following trends during the first half of the

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nineteenth century in the US John Calhoun was a famous

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Southern pro slavery political theorist and politician He strongly opposed

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abolition and rooted for the expansion of slavery to the

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new American territories in the West In this excerpt Calhoun

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defends the slavery system He believed that slavery was a

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positive good because it benefitted the United States economy and

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he even claimed that slavery benefited The slaves Notice how

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he maintains that the South will not cannot surrender our

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institutions and even suggest that abolition couldn't be achieved without

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drenching the country in blood On boy he was right

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about that one thing Not much else So the answer

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there is d the Southern pro slavery Let me not

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think too hard about human rights movement Well the northern

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abolitionist movement and like letter eh There was the antagonised

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of the Southern pro slavery movement So much so that

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slavery debate was well one of the main instigators of

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the American Civil War Even women participated in the northern

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abolitionist movement by joining female abolitionist group So see is

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right there Most Southerners did not own slaves but they're

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cotton based economy still benefited from slavery For that reason

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although rich planters were the main slaveholders There wasn't a

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Southern abolitionist movement even among the poorer classes so give

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her to be there as well so it's d the 00:01:53.21 --> [endTime] southern pro slavery movement on anti thinking hard movement

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