| Peter Moore, Tyler - Poetry - 1999 - 638 pages
...considered opinion of the executive of the state that was assuming the leadership in Southern thought: Slavery is not a national evil; on the contrary, it is a national benefit. The agricultural wealth of the country is found in those states owning slaves, and a great portion... | |
| Robert Pierce Forbes - History - 2009 - 380 pages
...Carolina's Governor Stephen D. Miller made the leap from anti-emancipationism to proslavery, declaring: "Slavery is not a national evil; on the contrary it is a national benefit. . . . Upon this subject it does not become us to speak in a whisper, betray fear, or feign philanthropy."83... | |
| Thomas D. Morris - Personal liberty laws - 2001 - 304 pages
...other." By the end of that decade Stephen D. Miller, the governor of South Carolina, contended that "slavery is not a national evil; on the contrary, it is a national benefit."3 As early as the mid- 1820s the idea that slavery was a positive good had found able exponents... | |
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