Answer:
Southerners thought that slavery had existed throughout life history and was the natural state of mankind. The Greeks, The Romans, The British had slavery even Abraham as written in the Bible, so the southerners thought that by not having slavery the cotton economy would collapse and the tobacco crop would dry in the fields and rice would cease being profitable. So practicing slavery was a good idea to prevent chaos and unemployment.
They saw slavery as a “positive good” for enslaved workers.
