When the first African American slaves arrived in America, everything changed. Everyone had a slave or two or maybe two hundred or more. It was a normal thing for Americans to have slaves working for them on their farms or just around their house. Although in the 1800s all that changed, the North stepped back and look at slavery from a opposing viewpoint than the South, and that’s when the turmoil began.
By the 1800s if you lived in the South and didn’t have a slave, then you were divergent from the crowd. Since there was a strong need for cotton, there became more and more cotton plantations in the South which led many slaves to work each one. Slaves worked like animals each day, picking cotton out in the fields for their owners. …show more content…
The problems grew and the North and South became even more separated. Slaves were starting to rebel and find ways out of slavery. For instance, in the early 1800s, the Underground Railroad was formed. Slaves would run away and then get help from other abolitionist along their way until they made it to a free state so that they could be free. Although, this act was not legal in the Northern states either. If slaves were caught trying to get into a free state, they could be seized and taken back to their owners, or they could be prosecuted. The Underground Railroad was just an incentive for Southerners to buy more slaves though, and it strengthened the tensions between the North and the …show more content…
Although over time, his thoughts began to take a turn. Lincoln started to think that slavery would just die down, or at least that’s what he hoped for. He was ashamed of the fact that Americans were enslaving people, and he knew, morally, that slavery was wrong. Lincoln hoped that slavery would fade into the past, and then when it did, he planned to take all the African Americans back to Africa. He knew that whites and blacks were equal, but he also knew that the two races could never get along. Lincoln said whatever would appeal to the group that he was campaigning too so that he could keep the Union together. He feared that if he expressed his true views to the public that the Union would split and a Civil War would
By the 1800s if you lived in the South and didn’t have a slave, then you were divergent from the crowd. Since there was a strong need for cotton, there became more and more cotton plantations in the South which led many slaves to work each one. Slaves worked like animals each day, picking cotton out in the fields for their owners. …show more content…
The problems grew and the North and South became even more separated. Slaves were starting to rebel and find ways out of slavery. For instance, in the early 1800s, the Underground Railroad was formed. Slaves would run away and then get help from other abolitionist along their way until they made it to a free state so that they could be free. Although, this act was not legal in the Northern states either. If slaves were caught trying to get into a free state, they could be seized and taken back to their owners, or they could be prosecuted. The Underground Railroad was just an incentive for Southerners to buy more slaves though, and it strengthened the tensions between the North and the …show more content…
Although over time, his thoughts began to take a turn. Lincoln started to think that slavery would just die down, or at least that’s what he hoped for. He was ashamed of the fact that Americans were enslaving people, and he knew, morally, that slavery was wrong. Lincoln hoped that slavery would fade into the past, and then when it did, he planned to take all the African Americans back to Africa. He knew that whites and blacks were equal, but he also knew that the two races could never get along. Lincoln said whatever would appeal to the group that he was campaigning too so that he could keep the Union together. He feared that if he expressed his true views to the public that the Union would split and a Civil War would