Among the economic reasons for slavery in America, there was also a very undemocratic aristocrat class that was composed of the wealthiest that controlled the politics and legislature of the South. The biggest controversial act was the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act which required slaves to be required to their owners. There was a previous Fugitive Slave Act, but it only dealt with slaves who had escaped or left to a free state without their master’s consent. Early codes such as the Barbados Code, denied basic rights to slaves and empowered the masters. Outlined are a series of laws that protect the master from any liability, even if he murdered his slave;“it is further enacted and ordained that if any Negro or other slave under punishment by his
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The South had a great deal of empathy towards slaves due to the fact that they knew the lifestyle that they had to endure. They helped introduce Christianity to them and give them something to have faith in. The slaves fed their children, read to them, cooked for them, and they all lived among each other cooperatively as if they were family so it was harder morally on the southern slaveholders. The North on the opposite side saw the slave owners as non-righteous and doing it for enjoyment. However in the North, their way of dealing with slavery was to avoid it completely, which meant any means to keep their sight and smell away from them. This often ended up with slaveholders from the North being amongst the cruelest. The society also heavily affects those who grow up in it. As Henique grows up, he is taught to beat and keep blacks under control and his view may not change when he gets older. “A few cuts never come amiss with Dodo,—he’s a regular spirit, I can tell you” (Stowe 383). There was also conflicting political messes with the Free Soilers and Unionists.The free-soilers are a political party who believed in free men, free soil, free press and free speech. Unionists saw slavery as wrong, but many of them did not want to lose their profitable connections in the
The South had a great deal of empathy towards slaves due to the fact that they knew the lifestyle that they had to endure. They helped introduce Christianity to them and give them something to have faith in. The slaves fed their children, read to them, cooked for them, and they all lived among each other cooperatively as if they were family so it was harder morally on the southern slaveholders. The North on the opposite side saw the slave owners as non-righteous and doing it for enjoyment. However in the North, their way of dealing with slavery was to avoid it completely, which meant any means to keep their sight and smell away from them. This often ended up with slaveholders from the North being amongst the cruelest. The society also heavily affects those who grow up in it. As Henique grows up, he is taught to beat and keep blacks under control and his view may not change when he gets older. “A few cuts never come amiss with Dodo,—he’s a regular spirit, I can tell you” (Stowe 383). There was also conflicting political messes with the Free Soilers and Unionists.The free-soilers are a political party who believed in free men, free soil, free press and free speech. Unionists saw slavery as wrong, but many of them did not want to lose their profitable connections in the