The South strongly believed in the importance of slavery, most likely because this part of the United States relied on it far more than the North. According to the 1850 Census, the North had 236 slaves, compared to 3,200,364 in the South. As stated above, the North was more industrial than the South, which made slavery less of a necessity. Furthermore, the North was home to 7 in 8 immigrants that came to the America, placing more reliance on slavery than immigration. Moreover, there were more abolitionists in the North. John Brown, for instance, was a violent abolitionist from Connecticut. According to a biography on PBS.org (“John Brown,” n.d.), “Brown went to a proslavery town and brutally killed five of its settlers,” then, “he and 21 other men -- 5 blacks and 16 whites -- raided the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry,” in an act of protest against slavery. This, along with a growth in the voices of other abolitionists, planted a seed of fear in the South. Southerners were afraid that they would be removed from the Union if they kept their slaves, and as a result seceded before the North would have a chance to do so. This was a major event that led to the Civil
The South strongly believed in the importance of slavery, most likely because this part of the United States relied on it far more than the North. According to the 1850 Census, the North had 236 slaves, compared to 3,200,364 in the South. As stated above, the North was more industrial than the South, which made slavery less of a necessity. Furthermore, the North was home to 7 in 8 immigrants that came to the America, placing more reliance on slavery than immigration. Moreover, there were more abolitionists in the North. John Brown, for instance, was a violent abolitionist from Connecticut. According to a biography on PBS.org (“John Brown,” n.d.), “Brown went to a proslavery town and brutally killed five of its settlers,” then, “he and 21 other men -- 5 blacks and 16 whites -- raided the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry,” in an act of protest against slavery. This, along with a growth in the voices of other abolitionists, planted a seed of fear in the South. Southerners were afraid that they would be removed from the Union if they kept their slaves, and as a result seceded before the North would have a chance to do so. This was a major event that led to the Civil