Rexdragon125 posted... Engraining Mudsill Theory into capitalist culture is one of the biggest accomplishments of confederate slave owners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudsill_theory
Hammond argued that every society must find a class of people to do menial labor, whether called slaves or not, and that assigning that status on a racial basis followed natural law, while the Northern United States' social class of white wage laborers presented a revolutionary threat.[1]
It was directly used to advocate slavery in the rhetoric of other Democrats, who were struggling to maintain their grip on the Southern economy. They saw the abolition of slavery as a threat to their powerful new Southern market that revolved almost entirely around the plantation system, which was furthered by the use of primarily-African slaves but also used destitute whites.
Interesting.