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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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- 00:21
of state class of Spaniards The argument presented in the
- 00:24
excerpt defending the enslavement of American Indians is similar to
- 00:27
the argument used by Southern slaveholders in which of the
- 00:31
following decades Unfortunately slavery was common practice for much of
- 00:38
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
- 00:45
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
- 00:54
benefited from the arrangement because well they needed the protection
- 00:57
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
- 01:07
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
- 01:16
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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