Abolish Slavery In The 1800s

By the 1800s many northerners realized that slavery was an immoral practice, most northern states began to abolish slavery. Although the Northern states abolished slavery, the south still wanted to keep slavery legal because without slavery their whole economy would collapse. Northern and southern representatives in Congress still had contrasting ideas that slavery should be abolished or continued. Their biggest concern was keeping the peace, but to do this they overlooked the 2.5 million people in bondage. Doing this they took away the people constitutional rights of pursuing life, liberty, and happiness. Most of the enslaved people were treated horribly sometimes worse than animals, they could be punished severely, or even killed for no reason.