Thomas Roderick Dew Quotes
When we turn to the New Testament, we find not one single passage at all calculated to disturb the conscience of an honest slaveholder.
Thomas Roderick Dew, 1802-1846, Political and Social Scientist, Frequent Argument in Favor of Slavery
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It was then the practice of some men to engage in an attempted moral justification of slavery, including, in many cases, resorting to Biblical scripture and principles to argue that slavery was the will of God.
Southern secession and the Civil War This is one of the major quotations with which historians rebut the revisionist view that the Civil War was about States’ Rights or other economic factors.
The language was removed in the negotiations that followed Jefferson's draft.
Brown was the richest man in Rhode Island and made much of his money in the slave trade. This quotation shows that slavery was not completely a North verses South split. Northerners like Brown for whose family Brown University was named, was as virulent supporter of slavery as the most ardent Southerner.
There was little thought of emancipating slaves or their value to the South by the senior officers of the Union Army at the beginning of the war. The Secretary of War changed that. See {629183}for a typical Union General’s view at the beginning of the war.
Thomas Roderick Dew (1802–1846) was a professor at and then president of The College of William & Mary. He was an influential pro-slavery advocate.
