In the South during the antebellum period, slaveholders defended the institution of slavery using social/political, religious/ideological, economic, and even scientific evidence to defend slavery, closer to at the end of slavery they were more fervent in their defense of slavery because as the years went by northern abolitionists were more fervent in abolishing slavery. Previously, closer to the beginning of the antebellum period, they simply argued that slavery was a political evil and not a crime, and therefore should not end. Slavery was a profitable business and had existed for a long time, so Southerners did not want to eliminate it. Later, during the antebellum period, the Bible was used to justify slavery, saying that God approved of the institution of slavery. They even used science in an attempt to justify slavery; African slaves were said to not be the same species as European and Asian men, because their bone structure was different. In the antebellum period, slavery had already existed for over 200 years, and became an integral part...