How Did Slavery Affect The North And South

Slavery began in America as early as the 16th Century and would continue for the next 200 years by states and colonies. Slaves were brought in to aid in the production of crop farms. Most slaves in the lower South labored on large plantations possessing twenty or more slaves working on tobacco and cotton (Tindall, pg. 496). Europe had a high demand for cotton production so this made the land owners in the south in need of more slaves to help with the production in goods for the Europeans. The development of the cotton gin saw Southern planters grow a variety of cotton practically short staple cotton that was well suited for the heat in the Deep South. Much of the slave trade was done as part of the “Triangular Trade”. Trade between the Europeans
Other notable people fought for slavery as well, like John Brown who fought for slavery and even predicted there would be a war to fight over slavery after a botchery attempt to steal guns and aid slaves from Harps Ferry. He was later captured and tried for treason but before his death he made one last prophecy “crimes of this guilty, land: will never be purged away; but with blood” (UH.edu, John Brown history). Before the civil war the north and south states had become less alike, socially and economically and politically. The South had grown mostly into agricultural reform while the North was more industrial and commercial. Slavery had proven unprofitable in the North and was dying out. Most important of all peculiar institution was what separated the South and the North. The North wanted to limit the spread of slavery, while some wanted it gone altogether. Southerners wanted to keep slaves and wanted it expanded beyond Southern borders. Torn between the benefits of owning slaves and the moral constitution issues raised, white southerners grew more defensive on slavery. Southerner’s believed that black people were incapable of caring for themselves and that slavery was beneficial to them because it kept them fed, clothed and
Many slaves fled north any way to fight for their freedom against the South and once the North started to accept slaves as members of the military thousands rushed to enlist in the Union army. Over 150,000 African-American Troops had fought for the Union Army, which was about 10% of the total Union troops during the Civil War, and around 40,000 troops died for the cause of freedom. Meanwhile the South did not allow slaves to participate in the war because they were terrified about the idea of slaves turning on them if they armed them with firearms. Slaves began undermining the South once they were escaping the North. The North was trying to aid slaves in the South by any means necessary. The sad part was that the North was not prepared for the mass fugitive slaves that crossed Union lines. The federal government did not have enough food prepared and thousands refugees suffered as a result. On July, 1862 President Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation which proposed emancipate the slaves in all rebel areas on January, 1863. It stated that no such state “should ever be recognized by or admitted into, the family of Christian and civilized nations and that all Christian and civilized men everywhere should, by all lawful means, resist to the utmost, such recognition or admission”