Because the slave owners didn't have to pay for the free labour the slave were giving them.
Slave owners would almost always defend slavery. Slaves were their workers, after all, and they needed to produce food, tobacco, and cotton (especially in the King Cotton years). Some slave owners did have it just as bad as the slaves, or owned a few, and they actually were a bit nicer to those slaves and probably didn't care much for slavery. But a vast majority of slave owners defended slavery; hence the reason for the Civil War.
Slaves were Negros slave owners were Caucasians.
Southern slave owners defended slavery, by stating that slavery had existed throughout history and was the natural state of mankind. Defenders of slavery argued that the institution was divine, and a good thing for the enslaved. They also noted that in the Bible, Abraham had slaves.
mountain dwellers who didnt support slavery and white trash but they supported slavery
yes the owner could set their slaves free.
The slave owners.
No they loved slavery it was important to the slave owners
The slave traders who sold slaves to slave owners.
They made the myth of the happy slave and said that slavery actually helped slaves.
Slave owners would almost always defend slavery. Slaves were their workers, after all, and they needed to produce food, tobacco, and cotton (especially in the King Cotton years). Some slave owners did have it just as bad as the slaves, or owned a few, and they actually were a bit nicer to those slaves and probably didn't care much for slavery. But a vast majority of slave owners defended slavery; hence the reason for the Civil War.
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Slaves were Negros slave owners were Caucasians.
Southern slave owners defended slavery, by stating that slavery had existed throughout history and was the natural state of mankind. Defenders of slavery argued that the institution was divine, and a good thing for the enslaved. They also noted that in the Bible, Abraham had slaves.
It was a factor, but not a sole cause. Most Southerners were not slave owners, and had zero interest in fighting for the sake of slave owners.
No, steroids were not in use duing the time of slavery.
Tell slave owners about the 13th Amendment if they live in the US.
They were probably forced to let their slaves go unless the slave wanted to stay.