These stereotypes helped the coming of war, because of the novel, Uncle Toms Cabin, which gave fuel to the fire of anti-slavery forces in the Northern states, which brought anger in the south, who wanted slavery, because of John Brown. The northerners looked at the southerners, and saw what was in Uncle Toms Cabin, and the southerners looked at the northerners, and saw John Brown. Abolitionism believed that slavery was wrong, and many Americans opposed slavery from the beginning. Abolitionist movement began early on, and over the next fifty years or so, began to collect steam. One by one, Northern states abolished slavery, while the South held on to it with an iron grip. Once the south got fed up with the north, they started a war, because
