First (as the racial theorists claimed), that Negroes were inferior subhumans whose natural lot was servitude. Second, that “all men are created equal” was a “self-evident lie.” Third, that “master and slave is a relation in society as necessary as that of parent and child.” Fourth, that because “free society” in the form of Yankee capitalism was “unnatural, immoral, unchristian, it must fail and give way to a slave society—a system as old as the world.” For “two opposite and conflicting forms of society cannot, among civilized men, co-exist and endure.
The rationale for slavery.
