"loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. it's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. you're alone because you want to be."

The ideas of hammond are most clearly an example of which of the following mid-19th century developments? (5 points) the increasingly liberal nature of slavery after the south enforced stronger slave codes the growing use by northern antislavery activists of moral arguments the increasing number of freed slaves in southern states as a result of gradual emancipation laws the growing tendency of southern slaveholders to use the paternal ethos to justify slavery