During the 19th century supporters of slavery began trying to make justifiable arguments to support slavery. The supporters tried to make their arguments with three cases, however they were not good enough. The tried to make slavery justified legally, economically, and religiously. The slave supporters felt that without the slaves the country would fall apart, and one way they said that was economically.
Slave supporters felt that economically slaves were successful, and they felt that they supplied most of the exports for the country. The supporters felt that the slaves were better than the free blacks in the north economically. They felt that they were more stable. Therefore, they began to say that the slaves were living a better live than that of a free black man, and they tired to argue that they always had a job, shelter, and need for health problems. The supporters also began to wonder how the north would survive economically without the labor force of slaves, because no one wanted their jobs even if they were paid. The supporters believed very much that with out the slave labor the country would not be what it was. Consequently, they felt without to them that the economy would suffer and could lead to such things as a depression. The south not only felt they were justified economically, but also legally.
The supporters had developed many ideas that would allow them to argue that slavery was legally allowed. They believed that slaves were property, and they knew that they had certain rights to those properties listed in the Constitution. They knew if they counted them as property and not as people then certain rules would not apply, and indeed they were right. Therefore, since they were property and the Constitution protects the right of property certain issues came up about this. One major argument in favor of the supporters was the Dred Scott Case. Since the judge declared that slaves were not citizens, and basically not people, just property the abolitionists could do nothing.
