After 1830, southerners increasingly argued that
a. slavery was a positive good endorsed by the Bible and Aristotle.
b. slavery was morally problematic but economically necessary.
c. slavery could not be ended because emancipation would deepen racial conflict.
d. poorer whites as well as blacks could be enslaved.
e. leading European intellectuals accepted slavery on racial grounds.
a
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