The Election Of 1848 And Emerging Sectional Divide Between The North And The South Over The Issue Of Slavery

In the 1800s slavery was a major issue in its time. Slavery is described as being held against someone's will;It is being imprisoned and not being able to escape a dark abyss. People that were enslaved were either born into slavery or vended off to plantations workers. There were 2 different labor systems that were the North and the South. The North and South labor system have similarities that they share as well as differences.

In 1820, politicians debated whether or not slavery would be legal in western territories and this caused a great deal of dispute. While the South utilized slavery to sustain its culture and grow cotton on plantations, the North was more industrialzed and prospered during the Industrial

The idea of slavery during the 19 c.e. is using slaves to work on plantation to pick up cotton and other means of making profit. Southerners use slaves as property, as servants, and having children with them and being sold. According to American Yawp, "But slavery remained, and the internal slave trade rose as the 1860s approached. Political debate, race relations, and the burden of slavery continued beneath the roar of steamboats, counting houses, and the exchange of goods." This showed that slavery is valued and slaves made the necessary need in making a working economy in the south.

Slavery, in the South and as well in the North, played a huge role of the culture of their societies. The North had a general belief in abolitionism, while the South opposed that idea. All the economic reasons led to the cultural differences. The South viewed slavery as a necessity to their economy. The North believed it was wrong to own a human being. The South contradicted this idea with the North’s use of cheap labor in its factories.

Slavery was one of the main factors sending the north and south into a raging war. There was more to than just slavery being abolished. Slavery being abolished to the south was like the government was taking abilities and money from them. Thus making them feel as if they were being done wrong. Also a majority of southerners were plantation owners needing slaves to work the farms so they could earn

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

One effect on the issue was that the economy in the south was fueled by cultivation of staple crops that required slaves for labor. In the South slavery wasn’t thought as an evil as in the North because to the Southerners defense the slaves in their opinion were treaty in contrast to workers in England and peasants that were Irish, also the end of slave trade brought higher value to the slaves causing their owners to be less harsh because they were more valuable. Although slavery fueled the economy in the South it was not the same in the North therefore there was no complete dire need for slavery, and although the slaves probably weren’t treated as bad as the north had thought they still saw it as

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.

And its abolitionist and free thinking.Meanwhile, the south’s colony is characterized by the controversy of slavery and the cash crops they produced

The Constitution, prior to 1865, did not use the words ‘slave’ or ‘slavery’ once. There is only one reference to slaves in the Constitution prior to the Civil War, in Article 1, Section 2 which refers to the 3/5 Compromise, “….. ,and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.” , where slaves are referred to as ‘other Persons’. Because of this ambiguity in the Constitution, the proclamations of the illegality of slavery by the North were not backed by law. Instead, the issue of slavery was reduced to a moral conflict, with the North against the institution, and the South for it. The South relied heavily on crops due to its fertile soil. Chief among these crops was cotton. It was the South’s need

From the 1820s to the 1840s the North and South’s economic resources were very different. The North was mostly manufactured while the South’s was agriculture based. The North was much more industrialized during this time. They were manufacturing wool and textile goods. While the South was farming, its main crop was cotton. They both had many differences eventually leading to the Civil War. African Americans were used as slaves to produce the amount of cotton the world needed. The slaves wanted freedom they thought this was unfair, the slave masters had to control them from breaking free. The big challenge was power, masters and slaves both wanted something that benefited them own selves. Most of the African Americans accepted that they were

The fight to end slavery was not only because of the social or human rights issue; it was more of a political issue. From the very manifestation of the constitution slavery posed issues of taxation among the free states and non-free states. The Yankees knew that if slavery was ended this would directly place a dagger directly in the center of the southern economy. Slaves were largely relied upon to keep the cotton and tobacco industry thriving in the south. Slaves were not as useful in the north being that most products were manufactured in a factory or mill and most jobs were occupied by immigrants. The emancipation of slaves would not only impact the southern crops but have a direct affect on the northern job market by making it that much more harder for and individual living in the north to find a job. Some often compared the working hours, conditions and wages of sweat shops in the north and wondered if it was actually better than slavery. Many communities found slavery to be highly offensive such as the Quakers they often rendered aid to slaves trying to make a transition in free territory. The election of Abraham Lincoln also set the tone for an anti-slavery society implementing the emancipation proclamation and basically giving the confederate states and ultimatum to return to the

Slavery became really big in the Southern area of America. Slavery began to appear in Southern states such as North Carolina, Louisiana, and Georgia. Georgia even fought to allow slavery in their state as stated in Georgia Asks for Slavery. Slaveholder’s enjoyed the idea or free labor. On the other hand, slaves hated being mistreated by their masters and jumped overboard boats because they rather die than live a life full of misery and hate as said in Voyage to America on a Slave Ship. Also, in 1835, Governor George McDuffie defended slavery. In A Speech Defending Slavery McDuffie argued about the number of abolitionists growing in South Carolina. Slavery is wrong and cruel because slaves were denied their human rights, and slaveholders denied slaves’ rights for many unacceptable reasons.

Although the Southern colonies and then states used slaves far more often than their northern counterparts, all the people who were in the United States were accomplices to the travesty that was the institution of slavery. People in the north aided slavery when they knowingly purchased products that were grown in land that was worked by slaves. Slavery became the backbone of the economic system in the Southern colonies and then the southern states. Very few people were willing to take a decisive stance against a practice which was

Even though the slavery was introduced in the early 1600s, it had no doubt that the abolitionist inaugurated the movements about the slavery actively from early 1850s. The slavery became the essential part of industry in the South more than in the North because of the large plantations and slave trades. So in the Southerners’ perspective, the slave flourished the businesses with their inexpensive labor forces in order to profit; they argued slaves were by and large a culturally inferior, child-like people who were treated well by whites and thus content with their status in life. However, Uncle Tom’s Cabin described the slavery as an evil institution that must be abolished accurately from the historians today.