Question

The ideas of Hammond are most clearly an example of which of the following mid-19th century developments? (5 points) The increasingly liberal nature of slavery after the South enforced stronger slave codes The growing use by Northern antislavery activists of moral arguments The increasing number of freed slaves in Southern states as a result of gradual emancipation laws The growing tendency of Southern slaveholders to use the paternal ethos to justify slavery

Answer 1

Answer: the correct answer is the growing tendency of Southern slaveholders to use the paternal ethos to justify slavery.

Explanation: James Hammond was a well known pro slavery politician who once said: " In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. ... It constitutes the very mudsill of society." He went on to utter the oft-repeated words, "You dare not make war on cotton — no power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is king."" For him it was ethical to have a class to do the menial chores as he said.