In the Pre-Civil War era, America was disembodied over the issue of slavery from the North and South. Inventions such as the cotton gin and the steel plow boomed the need for slave labor in the South, so much that their population in that area increased from ⅓ to ½ from the 1840s to the 1860s. The call for freedom for all African Americans loomed with slave rebellions and the abolition movement. However, Southerners and its slave owners vowed to keep their slaves, needing a workforce to labor on their cash crop plantations, that made up the vast majority of their economics. Many abolitionists including David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Highland Garnet, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, and Angelina Grimké Weld poured their hearts…