How Did Slavery Cause The Civil War

Prior to the civil war, which was 1861-1865, the first black slaves arrived in 1619. The slaves during these years of 1619-1885 over 3million black slaves came over to the United States and the slaves were was used in providing cheap labor for the United States tobacco, sugar and cotton plantation. The black slaves became chattel by 1740, which meant the slaves became objects and meant that slaves could be bought and sold, and were, not classified as people. The Union had less slaves due to introduction of machine by the industrial revolution the Confederates believed that it was better to have man power so they stuck with slavery and had 380 000 white rich landholder own slaves. Those Confederates and those in the union who kept their slaves treated the slaves very badly and the slaves suffered many harsh conditions during the 1800s, which were: as they were chattels which lead to slaves could be sold to different master which lead to being separated from their families, Whites would try and gets the slaves to forget past and culture, white could …show more content…
Some believe that it was not really important but on the flip side they believe it was the only real cause. Edna Medford is a professor at Howard University in Washington DC and specializes in 19th century African American History and she is a member of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial (200years) foundation and she says “Oh, absolutely. It’s all about slavery. …, Americans, unfortunately, don’t know our own history, after the war, the nation sort of came together and decided that it was going to forget what the real cause was, because it was too painful to remember that slavery was what divided the nation.” This quote by Edna Medford is 100% agreeing that slavery was the real reason that caused the civil war however people are upset that slavery was the cause and try to forget that slavery did cause America to divided and fight against each