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OpenStudy (anonymous):

what was one way plantation owners defended the idea of owning slaves

OpenStudy (anonymous):

One way employed by the slave owners to justify the practice of slavery was by saying that Africans were mentally inferior, and they were created and meant to be subservient to the white Americans.

OpenStudy (wwhitlock):

They also referred to slavery in the Bible to justify it.

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