Social
During the 19th century, the United States was clearly divided into the southern states and northern states, both with totally different perspectives. The South gained the world’s respect for its cotton plantations, the slave population, its supervisors and white farmers who owned the land. Slaveholders with higher power controlled southern politics. Whereas before the outburst of the war in the Northern Plantations there was no ability to socially escalate, the only way was to move to the city and undertake work as a wage earner. (Keegan, 2009). The North was way more educated since twenty percent of the white population in the South was illiterate whereas in the North ninety-five percent of the population could read and write (Keegan, 2009). As the Southern slaves supplied the Northern factories with cotton, the North at the outbreak of the war had twenty thousand miles of railroad compared to the South’s ten thousand. This factor became one of the most meaningful regarding the war resolution (Meyer 2013). …show more content…
A key factor was the dehumanization of these slaves, meaning the slaveholders would do things in order for them to see slaves as animals rather than human beings (Millwood 2014). This in turn, made the slaves resist in various ways. The most common and probably the least meaningful was procrastination. Moreover, they “demonstrated” that they were human to slaveholders throughout marriage. Indeed, the formation of family was a way to show society how much alike from slaveholders they were, though it was not easy to maintain families together due to the slave trade (Meyer 2013). During the nineteenth century a significant number of slaves became Christian, which represented an increase Americanization and clearly another way to disproof the dehumanization among
During the 19th century, the United States was clearly divided into the southern states and northern states, both with totally different perspectives. The South gained the world’s respect for its cotton plantations, the slave population, its supervisors and white farmers who owned the land. Slaveholders with higher power controlled southern politics. Whereas before the outburst of the war in the Northern Plantations there was no ability to socially escalate, the only way was to move to the city and undertake work as a wage earner. (Keegan, 2009). The North was way more educated since twenty percent of the white population in the South was illiterate whereas in the North ninety-five percent of the population could read and write (Keegan, 2009). As the Southern slaves supplied the Northern factories with cotton, the North at the outbreak of the war had twenty thousand miles of railroad compared to the South’s ten thousand. This factor became one of the most meaningful regarding the war resolution (Meyer 2013). …show more content…
A key factor was the dehumanization of these slaves, meaning the slaveholders would do things in order for them to see slaves as animals rather than human beings (Millwood 2014). This in turn, made the slaves resist in various ways. The most common and probably the least meaningful was procrastination. Moreover, they “demonstrated” that they were human to slaveholders throughout marriage. Indeed, the formation of family was a way to show society how much alike from slaveholders they were, though it was not easy to maintain families together due to the slave trade (Meyer 2013). During the nineteenth century a significant number of slaves became Christian, which represented an increase Americanization and clearly another way to disproof the dehumanization among