Slavery In The 1800's: An Analysis

Colonies, concessions were made. These concessions included the 3/5 clause and the continuation of slavery. However, the idea that all men were created equal would continue to gain momentum through the 1800’s. Returning to Hume, he notes how the religious awakening movements of this time caused some to question the morality of slavery. One such individual, Theodore Dwight Weld penned this in response to a fellow abolitionist in how slavery should be viewed as a sin. He states: That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances, can annul the birth-right charter, which God has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral agent, and that he who robs his fellow man of this tramples upon right, subverts justice, outrages humanity . . . and sacrilegiously assumes the prerogative of God; and further, though he who retains by force, and refuses to surrender that which was originally obtained by violence or fraud, is joint partner [sic] in the original sin, becomes its apologist and makes it the business of every moment to perpetuate it afresh, however he may lull his conscience by the vain plea …show more content…
Everyone were guilty of the sin of slavery. This belief and idea continued to gain momentum. Such movements lead to a number of compromises, that would hinder the growth of slavery, but slavery continued to exist in the Southern States. This would all change come the election of 1864 when the third party candidate Abraham Lincoln would win the Presidency. Fearing the immediate ending of slavery, the Southern States rebelled and led to one of the most destructive wars fought in North America. Before the wars end the Emancipation Proclamation would be given and by wars end slavery would be found no more in the United