"…But Our Southern Slavery Has Become a Benign and Protective

"…But our Southern slavery has become a benign and protective institution,and our negroes are confessedly better off than any free laboring population in the world.How can we contend that white slavery is wrong,whilst all the great body of free laborers are starving;and slaves,white or black,throughout the world are enjoying comfort?..."
George Fitzhugh,"The Blessings of Slavery",1857
"…And thus it is that they are cajoled into the notion that they are the freest,happiest,and most intelligent people in the world….Thus it is that the South,woefully inert and invention less,has lagged behind the North,and is now weltering in the cesspool of ignorance and degradation."
Hinton Helper,The Impending Crisis of the South,1857
Using the excerpts above,answer parts a,b,and c.
a)Briefly explain the main point in the first excerpt (Fitzhugh).
b)Briefly explain the main point in the second excerpt (Helper).
c)Provide ONE piece of evidence from the period 1848 to 1860 and explain how it supports the interpretation in either document.