Correct. The answer is a. In his 1858 speech to the Senate, James Henry Hammond argued that slavery was a benevolent institution that provided work and care for African Americans, whom he regarded as “inferior . . . but eminently qualified in temper, in vigor, in docility, in capacity to stand the climate, to answer all her purposes.” Slaves, he suggested, were better situated than free laborers, who suffered from poverty and unemployment.
Incorrect. The answer is a. In his 1858 speech to the Senate, James Henry Hammond argued that slavery was a benevolent institution that provided work and care for African Americans, whom he regarded as “inferior . . . but eminently qualified in temper, in vigor, in docility, in capacity to stand the climate, to answer all her purposes.” Slaves, he suggested, were better situated than free laborers, who suffered from poverty and unemployment.