Slavery continued to cause major conflictions throughout the nation, especially between northern and southern states. Northerners and Southerners had two completely different views and insights on the issue of slavery. For most Northerners, they believed that slavery was wrong and it went against what the nation stood for; liberty and all men being created equally. However, there were some northerners who were antislavery and others (very few) were abolitionist. Although both sides opposed slavery, some individuals’ motives were self beneficial and really did not care so much for slavery while others believed in what America stood for and how it implies to everyone. Southerners on the other hand defended slavery, as it was their way of life. …show more content…
The southern states were a slave society, and were known to being the way of life. It was the root to everything in the south, and southerners were very protective about it. In the south southerners “feared that without slavery’s expansion, the abolitionist faction would come to dominate national politics and an increasingly dense population of slaves would lead to bloody insurrection and race war” (The American Yawp, Chap.13), and southerners did not want to jeopardize their way of life. The south would press on the notion that racial mixing and racial wars would break out, and that blacks were a threat to white supremacy. Besides the racial fears the south would speak out on, they also stressed that slaves were property, which entitles them to their owner. People in the south also used the bible to justify slavery because it was present in the bible. The southern states believed in the ‘mudsill’ theory. James Henry Hammond speech on the ‘mudsill’ theory explained the theory. Hammond and other pro slavery southerners defined slavery as a good thing. Paternalism was another justification, to influence their belief that slavery was a caring establishment. That south argued that they took care of their slaves, and that the north did not treat their workers with such …show more content…
Southerners and northerners had contradictory responses regarding abolitionism. Southerners had felt threatened and responded with death and withdrawal (from the union) threats, trying to stop the submission of antislavery petitions, and acting out by censoring mail from the north. Many disputes would occur which would cause both sides to clash more. However, northerners had a much simpler response. Some northerners involved themselves in abolitionist causes. The reason some and not all northerners did not participate in and/or made little to no effort in the abolitionist causes, were due to the unsafe circumstances they would be put in by the violent responses from the
Many Northerners believed that if not allowed to spread, slavery would ultimately decline and die. To justify their opposition to
The North and South both had opposite opinions about slavery, The South favored slavery because of there agricultural based economy which they needed slaves to attend to their harvests and crops, the North was against slavery because they were an industrialized nation they had no need for slavery. This debate went on and almost resulted
The time period from 1775 to 1830 was full of changes. The United States was developing into its own country, with its own freedoms. As the government began to settle, the issue of slavery was ever present. Nobody was quite sure of how to handle slavery. While some people fought to have slavery abolished, others completely opposed the idea of no longer having slaves. It was during this time period that many slaves managed to gain their freedom; however slavery as an institution continued to expand. Even though the many states passed laws outlawing the practice of slavery, the slave trade in the states that still allowed slavery grew immensely.
Many Northerners were coming to be against slavery. The feeling of opposition towards it grew due to the publishment of books such as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book explained the wrong of slavery and how cruel and evil it was. Southerners became offended and responded that everything was false. Some northerners even became abolitionists to help slaves escape. "Abolitionists wanted to end slavery and some helped slaves escape to the North and Canada" (Doc. 4). Southerners became angry at this action. Their belief was that escaped slaves were
In the beginning of 1607 to 1865 in the United States has significantly changed. At the first century, in 1607, Virginia industry was settled by John Rolfe in the Jamestown. In that period, they had started tobacco farming which got boom and success farming in the USA and increase the economy of the country. And improve the status. To attract immigrants, Virginia offered 50 acres of land to any immigrant that paid for his own. After that, in 1620, play mouth colony was the first colony established in New England. Rules and laws are established, who do not follow they will be in charge. From England huge immigrant migrate to Massachusetts. A group of Puritans want religious freedom. They were extremely hard workers due to the strict rules and
As Americans were moving west to fulfill the Manifest Destiny and conquering new territories, new boundaries for the Union were having to be shaped. With the northern states having officially abolished slavery since 1804, the argument over which territories would be free or not was now coming into play. The North and South have had differing opinions regarding slavery for over sixty years, but with the topic being kept out of most, if not all, political debates the dispute never seemed to come to a head. After the
In the Declaration of Independence it claimed that “all men are created equal.” but the people that wrote the constitution had different reasons why slavery was not included. The founding fathers had come up with several reasons why to allow slavery and also reasons why slavery doesn’t really matter.
The challenge would be to decide whether the new territories would be slavery areas or not. Tensions were high over the expansion of slavery. Politicians did not deal impartially with the tensions, and the decisions were made based on the interests of the political parties. Aftermath, the decisions led to conflicts, inflame debates, political divisions, and the emergence of new political parties. In this conflictual moment lived between the Northerners (abolitionists) and the Southerners (pro-slavery), a fact in 1857 disheartened the abolitionists by the end of the
Northern states feel sympathy towards the slaves since they believed that the slaves have to work very long in the cotton field with little rest. On the other hand, the South believed that the slaves were treated well with care and were given liberty (Doc.#3). As a result, slavery was abolished in the North and the social difference between the North and the South eventually led to the abolitionist movement. It is a movement for the abolition or the end of slavery. The movement tried to stop slavery with different methods: protest, political action, publishing, forming groups and societies, developing a colonization program (Liberia) and using the Underground Railroad. The American Anti-Slavery society was one of the most famous abolitionist organizations. It had more than 150,000 members (mostly from the Northern States) and still expands as more people wanted to stop slavery. The American Anti- slavery Society believed that slavery was a cruel crime people shouldn’t do and was against Christian teachings (Document#2a). The Southern states opposed this movement because it’s against their interests while the Northern states favored it since they wanted to stop slavery or stop the spread of slavery. They opposed everything that would spread slavery such as the war with
People went from having ten slaves in a farm to having 500 in a plantation. Slave brutality worsened because of this transition, abolitionist and free-soilers in the north did not like this drastic expansion. They opposed the Mexican War because it was a way for the United States to gain territory, and make them slave states thus increasing the expansion of slavery (Doc.4). Therefore compromises like the Compromise of 1850 were created, this compromise proposed that, “slavery does not exist by law, and it is not likely to be introduced into any territory acquired by the United States from the Republic of Mexico…” (Doc.5). Northerners also started showing opposition to slavery by not adhering to the Fugitive Slave Act. They believed that slavery is, "opposition to the first principles of principles of religion, morals, and humanity." and that its inconsistent with "our aims, as a free, humane, and enlightened people" (Doc.2a). On the other hand southerners believe that "slavery was one of the most dynamic economic and social processes..." and that without slavery "you could not have civilization... slavery freed upper class from manual labor"
Slaves had no money, no homes and not much hope of advancement in the real close future. The south kept the opinion that they were less than human for the most part. The north, though they wanted them free, still did not want what you would call a level playing field. They desired the slaves freedom, but did not want to associate with them.
The North and South both have alternate viewpoints and react differently when informed about the Emancipation proclamation. To begin, the North had a very strong desire to end slavery in the United States as a whole. Once acknowledged of the Emancipation Proclamation many believed Lincoln spoke the words that beset represented their beliefs. Lincoln states, "… I do order and declare that all persons help as slaves within said designated state, as parts of state are, and henceforth shall be free. Many slaves were abused in ways that could not be imagined and have done countless hours of hard labor and received no benefits whatsoever. Thinking of this Lincoln began to speak in the favor of slaves saying that he will not allow slavery to continue
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Despite the fact both Northerners and Southerners thought they were fighting against oppression and tyranny, Northerners focused on the oppression of slaves whereas Southerners safeguarded their own right to self-government.Even though the North and South thought they were undertaking the right reasons for battle, the differences were booming.
In the early years of the 19th century, slavery was more than ever turning into a sectional concern, such that the nation had essentially become divided along regional lines. Based on economic or moral reasoning, people of the Northern states were increasingly in support of opposition to slavery, all the while Southerners became united to defend the institution of slavery. Brought on by profound changes including regional differences in the pattern of slavery in the upper and lower South, as well as the movement of abolitionism in the North, slavery in America had transformed from an issue of politics into a moral campaign during the period of 1815-1860, ultimately polarizing the North and the South to the point in which threats of a Southern disunion would mark the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 (Goldfield et. al, The American Journey, p. 281).