19th Century Slavery Defenses In today’s world we recognize the institution of slavery as an evil and a mistake due to gross ignorance and near sightedness in past eras. Southerners in the 19th century tried desperately to save their blessed money making enterprise but to no avail. Their efforts to protect their “peculiar institution” stemmed into the areas of religion, economics, and legal means. Religion is the first subject at hand. The desperate Southerners …showed first 75 words of 795 total…

…showed last 75 words of 795 total…ship soon sank. In economics the South placed King Cotton on a high throne and tried to use his pull to keep slavery alive, but his sovereignty passed . Legally the South had the pull in congress to get many legislations passed, but they soon fettered. All of this desperate efforts by the slaveryites failed, culminating in the passage of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments and the end of black bondage in the New World.