Problem
None of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 had claimed that slavery was a moral system. By the mid- 19 (th) century, however, pro-slavery Southerners began to argue that slavery was morally correct. To answer the prompt below, read and analyze the primary source by George Fitzhugh Prompt How did Fitzhugh attempt to defend slavery? In other words, what arguments did he present in his defense of slavery? What had prompted him to write his defense of the South? How might his background have influenced his perspective?