mar 4, 1858 - James Henry Hammond presents the Mudsill Theory

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1) This theory claimed that there should and would always be a inferior class to let higher class rest upon. The theory was used to justify slavery and strengthened white supremacy, for no matter how poor a white was, they would be relieved for they were not black slaves and there belonged to a higher race.
2) Abraham Lincoln argued forcefully against this theory. It was a main devision between the North's and the South's ideology.

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