The Slavery Of The North From Slavery

During this time period, the treatment of slaves improved because they were treated more like humans rather than farm animal. Some slave owners even allowed their slaves to purchase their freedom by working for them for a certain amount of time. Some African American slaves were not as lucky for their masters forbid them to do so (Doc F). As the North finally gets rid of all slave activity, the South becomes more and more dependent on slave labor and more embedded into the system.

Throughout the 19th century, the distinctions between the North and South in the United States were controversial. Prior to the Civil War, the North consisted of business owners and middle-class men. The South consisted of mostly farmers. The North was industrial, using railroads and factories. The South was agricultural, with mostly farms and plantations. The North paid their labor workers. The South used slaves. Not only did their opposing views on slavery and the separation of the two cultures, tensions arose that eventually led to one of the most gruesome wars in history.

The most important difference between the north and south was the issue of slavery. The South was primarily agricultural, and the southern economy was based upon the existence of large family farms known as

African Americans in the North could live a much more productive life than in the South whether they were free or slaves and the slave population was not as important and not a necessity because the number of immigrants in the North was much larger in the North.

In the South, African Americans were used as property and made to work all the time. On the contrary, in the North there were 1% of free African Americans while the most other people were whites.These also leads into the reason of why there were economical differences between the North and South.

Free slave in the north and south had different rights and freedom to flex those said rights. In the north people were more or less neutral to the presence of blacks. Blacks in the north could hold gatherings and attend church both of which you cannot do in the south.However, most blacks voluntarily joined the military despite the numerous discrimination laws against them in the north.They also come outspoken abolitionists which is what they were known for most in the Antebellum period.

The north had greater population. While the south had 9 million people (3.5 million were slaves), the North had 22 million people (Doc 2). The north was also ahead in factory production. The north used 81% of the factory production, while the south used 19%. The north further more used 66% of the railroad mileage; the south only used 34% of the mileage. (Doc 1)

First, the economics in the northern and southern societies had various similarities and differences. The North had a better economy than the South. In the North, people were wage owners. Immigrants supplied labor for economy growth. There were no slaves; the workers earned something, even if it was almost nothing. In both the North and the South, people worked roughly twelve to fourteen hours each day. The South was an agricultural economy. In the South, slaves were usually a large percent of the workers; they were not paid for their work. Slaves were forced to work, and when they did their jobs wrong, they were abused until they could barely walk. Slaves and African Americans were treated horribly in both the North and the South.

Slavery was pretty much frowned upon in the North. Slaves that were in the North were considered to be free but not regular people. They lived in better housing opposed to the slaves living in the south. Slaves down south worked on plantations, mostly picking cotton in the fields. Cotton was the cash crop of the south. The more they harvested the more money they made. The more money they made, the more slaves that were bought. This cycle continued until Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. The cotton gin would remove seeds from the cotton like two or three times as fast as slaves

In the southern part of the country, African American slaves were forced to work night and day under unhealthy working conditions. These slaves were tasked to grow crops, which is a profitable business during that time. Other locations in the south have forced slaves to dig canals. In fact, slaves made the Southern California plantation possible after clearing out swamps, forests and the like.

The Northern colonies, after all, were founded to escape religious persecution, while the Southern colonies were mostly established to increase wealth and help England achieve its mercantilist goals. Slavery, therefore, was not only almost absent in the North because they weren’t needed to farm, but also because of the importance of religion to its European American inhabitants. While even after independence the South relied on slaves to farm few types of crops, the North became industrialized and had a diversified economy through trade and manufacturing. Societal values and geographic characteristics, like with the Southern and Northern Renaissances in Europe, caused sectionalism and the development of two definite sections of the early United

The economy was different in the North and South because of the businesses in the two areas. The South made the superior amount of crops, which the south grew five different crops, and the north only grew three. The crops that in North didn't grow that the South did was cotton and sugarcane. Although the North and South grew similar crops and some the same the South

Life was different in the North and the South. One way they were different was from their geography, such as different weather, farming land, land features and the broad flat rivers (in the south). Another way was their economy, because of businesses, farming, slave owners and manufacturing. The last way they were different was their societies. The North wasn’t rich, and didn’t own slaves.

Prior to Civil War, distinct Northern and Southern cultures were established; North strengthened on industrialized commercial area and the south reinforced with an agrarian agricultural area. Racism ran rampant in the Civil War and sectioned off everyone into their different groups and cliques. The north was more industrialized and didn’t really need slaves. But the south was around about 80% farmland so the south needed slaves to profit from their massive amounts of land.

The slavery provided a huge benefit for south America on economics at that time. Because of the geological reason, the south American developed by agriculture. Many people had their own land to plant crops. Also, in south America, the economics almost based on agriculture. However, in south America the proportion of the area of land and the population had a big gap. They didn’t have enough labor to afford the work to plant in the huge area of land. That was