Describe the pro-slavery argument. What kinds of assertions were made

Describe the pro-slavery argument. What kinds of assertions were made to justify the “peculiar institution”?

What will be an ideal response?

ANSWER
Consider: positive good argument (defiant); favorably compared to “wage slavery” of the North; beneficent institution, promoted intellectual development of whites and civilizing of blacks; supported a hierarchial, organic (stable) society; justified by racial inferiority (polygenesis).