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The argument presented in the above excerpt to defend the enslavement of American Indians is similar to the argument used by Southern slaveholders in which of the following decades?

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Okay A pushers this questions about this little long sentence

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on at the eighteen fifty disposition in Spain Video debate

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on land stating jurors classical scholars in time wandering and

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pulled it up till now has been running anything where

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wind men above monkeys to be your unworthy being sort

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of state class of Spaniards The argument presented in the

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excerpt defending the enslavement of American Indians is similar to

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the argument used by Southern slaveholders in which of the

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following decades Unfortunately slavery was common practice for much of

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America's history in the early nineteenth century abolition has started

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protest ng against slavery in earnest and slaveholders were forced

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to justify the institution in order to keep it going

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like one key need to sell Pool ITA They argue

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that slaves were of a naturally inferior race so they

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benefited from the arrangement because well they needed the protection

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for plantation owners provided there Well ridiculous statements such as

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these were most common before the intense philosophical and moral

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arguments about slavery that led to the Civil War in

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the eighteen fifties So that's that all the other eras

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air wrong Seventeen fifty seventeen eighty Slavery was still an

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accepted practice in the Southern states despite small groups of

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dissent in the North where slavery was not allowed And

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by the eighteen eighties the Thirteenth Amendment had finally abolished

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slavery completely So that be the wrong answer as well

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So the answer is C here and let's just move

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on

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