James Hammond claimed that a society without this practice may as well build "a house in the air" in aspeech that outlined his "mudsill theory" to explain it.
James Hammond claimed that a society without this practice may as well build "a house in the air" in aspeech that outlined his "mudsill theory" to explain it. George Fitzhugh defended it in works like CannibalsAll!. Opposing a resolution about discussing this practice led to John Quincy Adams receiving an ivorycane with "Right of Petition Triumphant" engraved on it. Wendell Phillips gave a speech at Faneuil Hallpraising a man who was killed for opposition to this practice; that man was Elijah Lovejoy. Otheropponents of it included Phillips' colleague, William Lloyd Garrison. For 10 points, name this "peculiarinstitution" ended in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment.
James Hammond claimed that a society without this practice may as well build "a house in the air" in aspeech that outlined his "mudsill theory" to explain it.
American slavery [or obvious equivalents]