In The Pro-Slavery Argument (1837),John C.Calhoun stated that slavery was
A)the "American way of life."
B)a "positive good."
C)likely to end in the United States within fifty years.
D)likely to be adopted by non-slave states within fifty years.
E)a "necessary evil."

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In The Pro-Slavery Argument, John C. Calhoun argues that slavery is not only a necessary evil but also a "positive good." He believed that slaves were better off under the care of their benevolent masters than they would be in freedom, and that slavery was a necessary institution for the economic and social development of the South. Calhoun's argument was a cornerstone of the pro-slavery movement in the antebellum United States.

In the Pro-Slavery Argument (1837),John C