"The slaves in the United States are treated with barbarous inhumanity; . . . they are overworked, underfed, wretchedly clad and lodged, and have insufficient sleep. . . . They are often kept confined in the stocks day and night for weeks together." Theodore Dwight Weld, Slavery As It Is, published in New York, 1839 "Slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the world. . . . They enjoy liberty because they are oppressed by neither care nor labor. . . . The women do little hard work. . . . Men and stout boys work, on the average, in good weather, not more than nine hours a day." George Fitzhugh, Slaves Without Masters, published in Richmond, Virginia, 1857The veiws expressed by George Fixhugh would have been most likely to align with the following arguments:

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