State v. Mann

I found it surprising that the original courts ruled against Mann to being with; the fact that this made it all the way to the North Carolina Supreme Court shocked me. I didn't realize that opinion of North Carolinians was in favor of the slaves. I was under the impression that slavery was accepted by almost everyone in southern society. It made me happy to learn that there were people starting to fight for the rights of slaves even as early the 1830's.

While it is thought my many that slavery is morally wrong the arguments in favor of it are more compelling. It not only has the approval of the church if practiced in a fair way, but it has many economic benefits. The souths pain profit was agriculture, and while there were very few white to work the fields there were an abundant of blacks. Without them agriculture would not have flourished and the United States in general, not just the south would suffer financially. The financial benefits of slavery outweigh the moral costs in the long run.