Ever since the beginning, slavery has always been a growing conflict in the United States. However in the 1800s, it became such a problem that it nearly separated the whole country. Those that lived in southern states believed that they had the rights to own slaves. They argued that the slavery made up a fairly large part of their economy because slave labor was cheap. This is why many of the big time planters were rich. Also, they felt African Americans were unfit to survive on their own. Northern citizens felt that there was no need for slavery and that it was wrong. But who is right regarding this situation. It all depends on the individual. The back and forth arguing between the north and south was intense, neither backing down from the
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He questioned whether or not the church actually knows the bible. He even goes as far as saying they are afraid of something that might not even exist. He states that people in the north, "even the best classes of English agricultural laborers can obtain for their support but seven pounds of bread and four ounces of meat per week, and when sick or out of employment must either starve or subsist on charity, we cannot but look with satisfaction to the condition of out slaves laborers, who usually receive as a weekly allowance, fifteen pounds of bread, and three pounds of bacon - have their children fed without stint, and properly attended to - are well clothed, and have comfortable dwellings, where, with their gardens and poultry yards, they can, if the least industrious, more than realize for themselves the vain hope of the great French king, that he might see every peasant in France have his fowl upon his table on the Sabbath - who, from the proceeds of their own crop, purchase even luxuries and finery - who labor scarcely more than nine hours a day, on the average of the year - and who, in sickness, in declining years, in infancy and decrepitude, are watched over with a tenderness scarcely short of parental." In his letter he makes it sounds like life as a slave is …show more content…
"The social system is founded upon forced labor, outs upon free labor. Slave labor cannot exist together with freedom of inquiry, and so you demand the restriction of that freedom; free labor cannot exist without it, and so we maintain its inviolability." At the end of the speech Schurz compares the difference between slave labor and free labor. But this one statement sums it all up. The main difference is "slavery demands, for its protection and perpetuation, a system of policy which is utterly incompatible with the principles upon which the organization of free labor society rests." What a way to finish such a powerful
He questioned whether or not the church actually knows the bible. He even goes as far as saying they are afraid of something that might not even exist. He states that people in the north, "even the best classes of English agricultural laborers can obtain for their support but seven pounds of bread and four ounces of meat per week, and when sick or out of employment must either starve or subsist on charity, we cannot but look with satisfaction to the condition of out slaves laborers, who usually receive as a weekly allowance, fifteen pounds of bread, and three pounds of bacon - have their children fed without stint, and properly attended to - are well clothed, and have comfortable dwellings, where, with their gardens and poultry yards, they can, if the least industrious, more than realize for themselves the vain hope of the great French king, that he might see every peasant in France have his fowl upon his table on the Sabbath - who, from the proceeds of their own crop, purchase even luxuries and finery - who labor scarcely more than nine hours a day, on the average of the year - and who, in sickness, in declining years, in infancy and decrepitude, are watched over with a tenderness scarcely short of parental." In his letter he makes it sounds like life as a slave is …show more content…
"The social system is founded upon forced labor, outs upon free labor. Slave labor cannot exist together with freedom of inquiry, and so you demand the restriction of that freedom; free labor cannot exist without it, and so we maintain its inviolability." At the end of the speech Schurz compares the difference between slave labor and free labor. But this one statement sums it all up. The main difference is "slavery demands, for its protection and perpetuation, a system of policy which is utterly incompatible with the principles upon which the organization of free labor society rests." What a way to finish such a powerful