What arguments did Southerners use to defend the institution of slavery?
Slaveholders argued the inferiority of the black slave and claimed that the system that enslaved him was the best possible one. It provided food, shelter, etc. In contrast, the free laborer of the North didn’t always have the basics for survival. Thus, the slave system was superior to the free labor system in the North. Keeping the institution of slavery in mind, explain why Southerners insisted on maintaining a political balance within the United States Senate? Being outnumbered in the House of Representatives, it was imperative for the Southern states to maintain at least an even amount of slave state and free state Senators, so that no legislation harmful to the interests of slaveholders would come about. In order for there to be an even balance of slave state-free states representation in the Senate, Western territories had to be open to slavery so that, when they became states, they would become slave states. Why did Northerners support the tariff while Southerners opposed it? Nor
