Anti Vs. Pro Slavery

The main argument for the pro-slavery side is that they get to do more interesting or important things while the slaves do all of the hard manual labor. Many of the large slave owners are very important people such as people on the Supreme Court or people that serve important roles in the government, but that does not make it morally correct to own slaves. Frederick Douglass said, "knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." Knowledge is something that everybody has to some extent so by that logic no man should be a slave. The argument that these "important people" don't have enough time to do everything that they have to is not a good argument because they shouldn't be overextending themselves to the point where they have to have a group of African American men and women to do the hard labor that they don't want to do themselves.

Abraham Lincoln states that no man should rule over another man because everybody is equal. Harriet Tubman said that "I look at my hands to see if I'm the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven." This exemplifies that being free from slavery can make everything seem special because you are not under somebody's rule and you are not in danger. Samuel Morris said that "not only is it a sin to own slaves it is a sin not to own slaves." So he is saying that if you don't own people then that is a sin which is a seriously flawed argument. The main consensus is that slavery is good because people profit from it but that is not morally correct at all because you could easily pay people to do that and let them come and go as if it was a normal job. In the end, the main point is that being too busy is not an excuse to own slaves.