South Carolina governor George McDuffie told the State Assembly in 1835, “No human institution, in my opinion, is more consistent with the will of God, than domestic slavery, and no one of his ordinances is written with more legible characters than that which consigns the African race to this condition.” South Carolina College professor Maximilian LaBorde would later second that statement: “Southern slavery is regulated by law, the principle of humanity is infused into it, it is the slavery of the Bible.”
