Slavery and Animal Rights

Slaves were considered to be an important component of the economic system in the United States. The cultivation of crops, including tobacco and cotton, required a tremendous amount of manual labor and the use of slave labor permitted wealthy landowners to maintain their standard of living. The anti-slavery movement in the United States campaigned for decades before succeeding in limiting the spread of slavery. It took a Civil War which threatened the existence of the Union before the United States government abolished slavery.

In hindsight, slavery flourished because the arguments people who opposed slavery fell on deaf ears. There was a powerful economic incentive for slavery to remain legal. In a transparent effort to shift blame from themselves, slaveholders used

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