The Institution of Slavery

Emancipation societies wanted to do away with slavery because of their interest in slaves as:

Human beings

The American Colonization Society planned to send freed slaves to:

Liberia

No one but the _______ objected morally to slavery until the early 1800s.

Quakers

After which war did slavery decline because ideas toward individual freedom were changing, and people were starting to respect human rights?

Revolutionary War

Why was slavery a paradox?

Slavery was a paradox, because the slaves were human beings, but the law viewed them as nothing more than property

Which group proved to be more profitable because they were permanent possessions of their master?

Slaves

Before the 1830s, more emancipation societies existed in the:

South

Southerners defended slavery by stating that slaves were necessary for economic survival.

True

setting free from slavery

emancipation

bound by a contract to serve or work for a period of time

indentured

a rising against established authority

insurrection