In Defense Of Slavery: James Henry Hammond

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Three different authors wrote about slavery , these authors are James Henry Hammond , william lloyd garrison , Abraham Lincoln . they all wrote about why they thought slavery was wrong . No compromise with the evil slavery , this article was written by garrison . Garrison felt like slavery was wrong because the whites referred to the blacks as animals . They used the blacks as slaves to do what they wanted them to do . In fact slavery he stated several reasons such as , “Then discriminate between a man & beasts” . Garrison did not agree with how they were treated . he had the thought of how could you be so holy but , yet you treat human beings as animals , garrison never understood and neither did the others . He made the statement “it is right

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