Role Playing Sectional Debate Speech by A Cotton Farmer

I, James Parker, feel that the status of the United States in world economy greatly depends on farming and therefore depends on the use of slavery. Those from the north that are trying to abolish slavery are hypocrites. Northerners are two faced for they have no problems with the benefits but they turn around and try to abolish slavery. Northerners are also two faced for they will say the conditions of slaves are horrible however on the other hand conditions are just as bad or worse in northern factories.
I being a southern plantations owner make my slaves work the fields throughout the…