Proslavery writers refuted Stowe by declaring Negroes created as subhuman by God.

Evidence

Although Uncle Tom’s Cabin may not have spread among southerners as widely as the plantation-school books, a large number of southerners did get their hands on it. “Mrs. Stowe says that the … chief wrong in the catalogue of sins against the negro, is the prejudice of caste, the antipathy of race, the feeling we crush into their souls that they are ‘nothing but niggers,’” wrote a Georgia “lady” in De Bow’s Review. But Mrs. Stowe was forgetting, she said, “the fact that their Maker created them ‘nothing but niggers.’” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 523

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates the segregationist position precisely: the Georgia lady asserts inherent, divinely-ordained racial inferiority without any need for policy argument.
• XREF: Directly contrasts with the reader’s own Kenji-yoshino-style interest in assimilationism — the plantation writer takes a pure segregationist stance on inherent difference.