The principles of the U.S. constitution, after the Declaration of Independence, spoke of the unalienable rights of shared by all men. The same rights that deprived nonwhites for over half a century. It took decades after the American Revolution for the nation to confront the paradoxical argument of freedom and liberty. Religious revivals and reform movements served as a rouse for the Anti-slavery/abolitionist rhetoric of the 1800s. Northern states, because of the 36o30’ parallel, grew unacquainted with the peculiar institution of the South and its essential role in Southern life and economy. The market revolution, urban and educational development of the North added further division of ideology between the North and South. To address the reasons
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Many of the planters and farmers viewed Indian slaves and White indentured servants as unreliable. They turned towards importing African slaves to sow, toil, and reap their crops. Slavery grew ever increasingly more as various acts and wars engulfed Indian lands west and south of the original British colonies. New land subsequently meant more plantations and African field hands. However, as the transatlantic slave trade was prohibited and the discovery of commercial crops, such as rice and cotton, helped lead the region into an era of economic growth and prosperity, many Southern plantation owners were less relenting to the growing Northern, Anti-slavery rhetoric. For decades, the Western World viewed African American slaves as nothing more than commodities bought, sold, retrieved or punished for insubordinate, sometimes mundane, behavior. Many Southerners turned to natural or religious reasons to justify their superiority over Blacks. Paternalism further idealized slavery by symbolizing the slaveholder as a paternal benefactor to his …show more content…
Stephan A. Douglas in his ambition for western development and construction of a transcontinental railroad, proposed a bill for the formation of territorial governments in Kansas and Nebraska. With the territories lying just above the Missouri Compromise line, through the Constitution, Kansas and Nebraska were outside the realm of slavery. However, the Cotton Kingdom states of the Deep South feared cessation of the land to the North’s slavery-free policy would result in the tipping of the Senate’s political balance in favor of the North. Douglas, in the hopes of claiming a ticket in to future presidency, came up with the principle of popular sovereignty that left local governments the power to decide, by popular vote, the legalization of slavery in the territories. This, understandably, escalated sectional division and ended the two-party system of the Jacksonian
Many of the planters and farmers viewed Indian slaves and White indentured servants as unreliable. They turned towards importing African slaves to sow, toil, and reap their crops. Slavery grew ever increasingly more as various acts and wars engulfed Indian lands west and south of the original British colonies. New land subsequently meant more plantations and African field hands. However, as the transatlantic slave trade was prohibited and the discovery of commercial crops, such as rice and cotton, helped lead the region into an era of economic growth and prosperity, many Southern plantation owners were less relenting to the growing Northern, Anti-slavery rhetoric. For decades, the Western World viewed African American slaves as nothing more than commodities bought, sold, retrieved or punished for insubordinate, sometimes mundane, behavior. Many Southerners turned to natural or religious reasons to justify their superiority over Blacks. Paternalism further idealized slavery by symbolizing the slaveholder as a paternal benefactor to his …show more content…
Stephan A. Douglas in his ambition for western development and construction of a transcontinental railroad, proposed a bill for the formation of territorial governments in Kansas and Nebraska. With the territories lying just above the Missouri Compromise line, through the Constitution, Kansas and Nebraska were outside the realm of slavery. However, the Cotton Kingdom states of the Deep South feared cessation of the land to the North’s slavery-free policy would result in the tipping of the Senate’s political balance in favor of the North. Douglas, in the hopes of claiming a ticket in to future presidency, came up with the principle of popular sovereignty that left local governments the power to decide, by popular vote, the legalization of slavery in the territories. This, understandably, escalated sectional division and ended the two-party system of the Jacksonian