A slave owner was punishing their slave with a beating. During this beating Lydia attempted to run, during this attempted evade of escape Mann had shot Lydia in the back. This case went to Supreme Court and the final decision was that the master was not liable to an indictment for the battery committed upon his slave. Many different arguments or modes have been argued. The different modes that was argued upon many throughout many years has been religion, through law and southern economics. The legal argument stated that he was acting just because Lydia was his property. No legal problems can be brought up because during this time a slave was their masters property. Another argument was religion, this was deeply rooted in the south. In many different bible verses slavery is seen to be moral and just by God. This had led to many things to just be moral in the south. For example in the Ten commandments slavery was mentioned twice, showing that God was complicit with it. Finally the last mode of argument is the economic factor of the south during this time. Slavery lifted the southern economically drastically and without the it the country could go into economic downfall. The final decision of the case was that Mann was returned his money with no economic or physical punishment.
3 events in history that provided a pro slavery action
1) The fugitive slave act
The first main act was passed in 1793 giving local governing bodies the authority to recapture and return these people.
2) The Missouri Compromise of 1820
an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states
3) Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia (the Confederate Army did not yet exist), and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
Anti slavery
Pennsylvania Society for the Petition of Slavery
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Emancipation Proclamtion
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