Most southerners defended slavery, even though they were not part of the "Plantation Aristocracy”. According to the readings and research, supporters of slavery claimed that ending slavery would have a huge impact on the economy by ending free labor, the cotton, tobacco, and rice market, would come to an end and cease being profitable. Even though, slave-owners had a small number of slaves, and utmost southern whites had not one slave at all, the widely held of southern whites powerfully braced slavery and racial control also because they valued the hope of becoming slave-owners themselves, and because of white racial distinctiveness gave them a sense of supremacy to the blacks.
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In the other hand, others came to believe that all human beings no matter their color had an equal claim to liberty and these people changed the views and became the basis for a growing chain of antislavery movements as stated in (The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, 5/e Alan Brinkley, Columbia University, Chapter 12: The Abolition of Slavery). The final outcome after many battles was the abolition of slavery but before that happened many antislavery movements came to be. (According to BBC, Dr. John Oldfield 2011) “Different activities culminated in two nationwide petition campaigns. In the first of these, in 1788, over 100 petitions attacking the slave trade were presented to the House of Commons in the space of just three months. The campaign of 1792 was more ambitious still. In all, 519 petitions were presented to the Commons, the largest number ever submitted to the House on a single subject or in a single session, but just as important as the size of the campaign was its range and diversity. While the industrial north provided the most enthusiastic support for abolition, every English county was represented in 1792, in addition to which Scotland and Wales made significant …show more content…
The reason why it is easier to end the slave trade than to end slavery it’s because you’re attacking the problem from its roots. For example, the outcome of ending the slave trade is that the quantity of slaves would be dropped. Causing the price of slaves to be higher due to scarcity, which would discourage people from using slaves at all since it would not benefit them as much as before. That would lead to an added drop in the quantity of slaves. Slavery would then gradually come to an end after this snowball
To continue, in the statement made in 1837 by John Calhoun in …show more content…
In the other hand, others came to believe that all human beings no matter their color had an equal claim to liberty and these people changed the views and became the basis for a growing chain of antislavery movements as stated in (The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, 5/e Alan Brinkley, Columbia University, Chapter 12: The Abolition of Slavery). The final outcome after many battles was the abolition of slavery but before that happened many antislavery movements came to be. (According to BBC, Dr. John Oldfield 2011) “Different activities culminated in two nationwide petition campaigns. In the first of these, in 1788, over 100 petitions attacking the slave trade were presented to the House of Commons in the space of just three months. The campaign of 1792 was more ambitious still. In all, 519 petitions were presented to the Commons, the largest number ever submitted to the House on a single subject or in a single session, but just as important as the size of the campaign was its range and diversity. While the industrial north provided the most enthusiastic support for abolition, every English county was represented in 1792, in addition to which Scotland and Wales made significant …show more content…
The reason why it is easier to end the slave trade than to end slavery it’s because you’re attacking the problem from its roots. For example, the outcome of ending the slave trade is that the quantity of slaves would be dropped. Causing the price of slaves to be higher due to scarcity, which would discourage people from using slaves at all since it would not benefit them as much as before. That would lead to an added drop in the quantity of slaves. Slavery would then gradually come to an end after this snowball