Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before the court today to defend the state’s law of segregating railroad cars. Being on the pro slavery side of the debate, Speaking from facts not feelings, If slavery was suddenly to stop, the South's economy would be really hurt. Southern Slave owners depend on slave labor for everything and so does the economy. If slavery stopped; the cotton businesses would fail, the tobacco crops would wither away, and rice wouldn't make money anymore.
Not to mention that the South grows sixty percent of the world's cotton and provides about 70 percent of the cotton consumed by the British textile industries. Slave labor also pays for a substantial share of the capital, and manufactured goods that lays the basis for American economic growth. Slavery also generates wealth by contributing to infrastructure development, in the form of roads, ports, and other facilities. These investments help stimulate economic growth.
Slave owners benefit from the wealth generated by their enslaved labor force, which was used to invest in various economic activities, like buying more land which would give more goods to the economy, benefiting it financially. Slaves serve as the largest financial asset to America. So why would we take that away? This would cause a lot of people to go without jobs, causing everyone to lose money in the end.
Not to mention things would get messy with the constant fights and bloodshed. To sum it up we need to have a system with social class. Someone will always be at the bottom, and someone will also always be at the top with higher status and more power. This is important and inevitable to recognize because if you do make more money, you will get the benefits that come with it, like being respected more. It’s what makes our system work and how we have always functioned, it organizes us into groups with certain similarities keeping us in line so the system can run smoothly and efficiently.
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