Problem
Use Crash Course's YouTube Video: "The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24" to answer the two prompts below. Use ample amount of evidence in your explanations.
I. After watching the film, describe the economic factors used to justify the practice of slavery in America. How was slavery considered economically efficient and necessary, and what did economics have to do with the perpetuation of the practice? Offer details and specifics.
II. How did anyone ever justify slavery from an ethical point of view? What did people have to do cognitively and emotionally to see slavery as appropriate? Explain.