Also, he found the sectional compromise as a way to preserve the Union. Finally, John Brown who gave his life trying to end slavery and make the American people realize that slavery should end no matter what the cost was. Therefore, he was one of the most abolitionists and antislavery people in the North. However, the Southern view of slavery was different because they were for slavery. They wanted to permit slavery by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This divided the country into North and South. The North had free states, where they have no slaves. Also, southern states that were pro-slavery, profited from it. They also prevented the slave from going to a free state because of the Fugitive Slave Laws, that were passed by Congress. Johan C. Calhoun would be a great example of the people who were for slavery in the south. Calhoun always fought for slavery and wanted it to extend to the free states. Another great thing to mention would be Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. Where Dred Scott was an African-American slave and he was taken north by his owner where slavery wasn’t banned. Scott argued that he should be free because he lived in a
Also, he found the sectional compromise as a way to preserve the Union. Finally, John Brown who gave his life trying to end slavery and make the American people realize that slavery should end no matter what the cost was. Therefore, he was one of the most abolitionists and antislavery people in the North. However, the Southern view of slavery was different because they were for slavery. They wanted to permit slavery by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This divided the country into North and South. The North had free states, where they have no slaves. Also, southern states that were pro-slavery, profited from it. They also prevented the slave from going to a free state because of the Fugitive Slave Laws, that were passed by Congress. Johan C. Calhoun would be a great example of the people who were for slavery in the south. Calhoun always fought for slavery and wanted it to extend to the free states. Another great thing to mention would be Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. Where Dred Scott was an African-American slave and he was taken north by his owner where slavery wasn’t banned. Scott argued that he should be free because he lived in a