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How did plantation owners in the southern colonies justify their use of enslaved africans?

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They said that the slaves were much better off in America than they would have been in Africa.

As the tensions mounted in the 1850's, they put pressure on the church ministers to declare that slavery was the perfect God-given arrangement of man and master.

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