Since the vast majority of southern whites owned few or no slaves, why did they support the "peculiar institution"?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Slavery as an institution served social as well as economic purposes. Slaveholding represented a path for some and a hope for many of upward economic mobility, social prestige, and political influence. The institution also offered poor whites a sense of superiority over at least one group and a sense of kinship, if not quite equality, with wealthier whites.
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