The North The Slave Questions By J. R Burden Analysis

There was many contractions and conflicts between the North and the South for a long period. Due to the different geographical conditions, the North depended on the trade and industries for living. On the other hand, the South heavily relied on agriculture and it needed more slaves to have enough manpower. As the result, the slavery began declined in the North; however, South maintained the slavery for the huge demand of the agriculture labor and slavery population rapidly increased in the South, which completely different from North. In the article, “The North- The South- The Slave Questions”, J.R. Burden discussed the struggle of slavery between the North and the South and claimed that many tensions between the North and the South that were hidden behind the slavery issue. The slavery was a factor that lead the issues such as three-fifth compromise, abolition movement, sectionalism, and other conflicts that further impacted to the division between the North and the South. The Civil War was inevitable as the outcome of the conflicts of interest between the North and the South.
J.R. Burden introduced the issue of the slavery between the North and the South. He states that, “…in …show more content…
In the article, E. states, “Again, as Christians, we are entrusted with a set of principles, which go to abolish such crimes, and are commanded by the Redeemer of the world to promulgate them” (40). The author claimed that they should abolish the slavery as what God asked them to do and no matter what anything. But this belief certainly against to conclusion of Burden and Sullivan, which both believed about bad consequence in abolitionism. Since people had different views about the abolitionism and they could not guarantee the definitely good outcome as result of eliminated slavery, the tensions still increased and slavery issue still not get