What argument was NOT used by Southerners in defense of the institution of slavery? Slavery had existed in biblical times.
B)
Northern wage workers working in factories were treated more
inhumanely.
C)
The curse on Cain (for killing his brother, Abel) was justification
for the degradation of blacks.
The constitution protected slavery in the South, and abolished it
only north of the Ohio River and the Mason-Dixon line.
D)