The vast compilation of ideas is the oil that fuels this society. These ideas give light to the multiple paths we may choose to follow in life. This country when it was still a collection of colonies managed to choose the path of hypocrisy that would cause the infant country to deal with a two century problem of racism and discrimination. The irony of establishing a country where “All men are created equal: instills slavery is disappointingly astounding. We see this as the darkest moment in American history, slavery. In this time we see the views the North and the
South had on the topic.
Let’s look shall we. With slavery ever present, new states and the Industrial Revolution were soon added to the equation. With the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act of
1850, lines would soon be drawn among the American people. You …show more content…
They had one goal, end slavery. Immense efforts were made (for example laws that stated a captured slave had to be brought to a judge and tried before court along with their master), so much to where you had William Lloyd Garrison who ran an abolitionist newspaper, slaves from the south like Harriet Tubman that would use the Underground Railroad to free slaves, and even a free Cincinnati born woman wrote the very thing to turn indifferent people into angry people: Uncle Tom’s Cabin. After people reading of a slave who escapes and helps his family escape to soon go back into slavery to keep his family safe, people began to yell even louder “Stop slavery!”
Meanwhile you had the economically obese South who always replied with “No.” With so much money they didn’t intend on stopping. Cotton was a valuable cash crop that had filled the southern economy’s belly. They would constantly use any resource to justify slavery and even claim that Uncle Tom’s Cabin falsely depicted slavery in the South.
All these elements would eventually lead to the inevitable Civil War; a war founded in false ideas and the love of money. Greed is a powerful
South had on the topic.
Let’s look shall we. With slavery ever present, new states and the Industrial Revolution were soon added to the equation. With the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act of
1850, lines would soon be drawn among the American people. You …show more content…
They had one goal, end slavery. Immense efforts were made (for example laws that stated a captured slave had to be brought to a judge and tried before court along with their master), so much to where you had William Lloyd Garrison who ran an abolitionist newspaper, slaves from the south like Harriet Tubman that would use the Underground Railroad to free slaves, and even a free Cincinnati born woman wrote the very thing to turn indifferent people into angry people: Uncle Tom’s Cabin. After people reading of a slave who escapes and helps his family escape to soon go back into slavery to keep his family safe, people began to yell even louder “Stop slavery!”
Meanwhile you had the economically obese South who always replied with “No.” With so much money they didn’t intend on stopping. Cotton was a valuable cash crop that had filled the southern economy’s belly. They would constantly use any resource to justify slavery and even claim that Uncle Tom’s Cabin falsely depicted slavery in the South.
All these elements would eventually lead to the inevitable Civil War; a war founded in false ideas and the love of money. Greed is a powerful