Anti Slavery Vs Pro Slavery

The silence was an analogy for how the talk of slavery was not brought up in public, nevertheless, it was spoken a lot behind closed doors. In February 1970, the Quakers, a religious group, established a petition to the federal government asking for an end to the African slave trade. Ultimately, this resulted in the petition for the end of slavery itself, which sparked a debate on whether it should be abolished or retained. The differential views encompassing the topic wound up dividing the Union into 2 categories, anti-slavery (North and Upper South) and pro slavery (Deeper South). The 1790 census of the United States gave a visual representation of how the populations of slaves looked in different places of the Union. One thing you can
make about is most of the slaves in the south represent half of their population. Another is that the population of them in the North is an exponential decay from the population in the south, therefore we can tell that the more you venture up, the less slaves you will see. We can also make the statement that slavery is dissipating in the North and flourishing in the South. Virginia is an outlier in the data as it is considered a Southern state and half of its population are full of slaves, the difference is that those slaves are considered free.