<em>1. Abolitionists used bible based references to show the moral decay associated with slavery as demeaning and ungodly.</em>
<em>2. Abolitionists showed that slavery permitted and exemplified human cruelty from one human to another.</em>
Explanation:
On the basis of moral decay, slavery was seen as morally degrading. <em>The allowance of a human being to reduce another human being to nothing more than a property that could be bought and sold at the owner's whim was seen as one of the worst form of sin that could be committed on a fellow man</em>. Abolitionists tried to prove this as not right and drew references and conclusion from the bible that this was not the way humans were intended or supposed to treat another. <em>The abolitionist equated slavery to a big sin before God and man.</em>
On the basis of cruelty, <em>slavery justified the use of force by the slave owner to curtail or control his/her slave</em>. Physical abuse and mutilation of slave was seen as a strong characteristics of a good slave owner. <em>Constitutional laws were put in place to take care of disobedient slaves in the most cruel way possible, and deadly harm done on a slave was met with the mildest punishment as if it was done on a farm animal. Slave were not seen as been above farm animals.</em>
