The issue of slavery can be traced back to 1787 when the constitution was written. Delegates from the north opposed the idea of slavery being counted as votes in the Senate, while delegates from the south approved of it. The slavery issue was never vanished into thin air since it returned into the Unites States after the slave trade was legalized in 1808. A elevating question arose which was, what should the new territories that would admission to the United States be? slave or free state. This led to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which settled the dispute by stating that territories above the borderline of missouri would be free states, and the states under the line would be slave states. However, the question would be absorbed back into
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Both the north and south visually perceived slaves or blacks in general as inferior to their race. Despite abolitionists and the hunger for liberating the slaves, blacks were still no different from savage animals.. They were not accepted into the north, and were still glued to their mother in the south same as it was before. Despite the rigorous realities introduced after the Mexican American war about slavery through Uncle Tom 's Cabins and stories published through newspapers, blacks weren 't part of the human tree. No matter how much blood were shed or lives were lost, it was embedded in the heads of the people in this nation that slaves aren 't humans. Division separated slaves and the nation since it was crystal clear where the slaves belonged which was around hard labor being oppressed. The labor system used for slaves was infact the same as before the Mexican American war, using blacks to run the economy in the south while the north attempts at nothing to free them. It was only a while after during the civil war that the view towards slavery changed where a small percentage of the north decided to end the civil war and slavery altogether. It was also clear that slaves had no distinct class or any class at all, and no education was proposed to them before and after the Mexican American war
Both the north and south visually perceived slaves or blacks in general as inferior to their race. Despite abolitionists and the hunger for liberating the slaves, blacks were still no different from savage animals.. They were not accepted into the north, and were still glued to their mother in the south same as it was before. Despite the rigorous realities introduced after the Mexican American war about slavery through Uncle Tom 's Cabins and stories published through newspapers, blacks weren 't part of the human tree. No matter how much blood were shed or lives were lost, it was embedded in the heads of the people in this nation that slaves aren 't humans. Division separated slaves and the nation since it was crystal clear where the slaves belonged which was around hard labor being oppressed. The labor system used for slaves was infact the same as before the Mexican American war, using blacks to run the economy in the south while the north attempts at nothing to free them. It was only a while after during the civil war that the view towards slavery changed where a small percentage of the north decided to end the civil war and slavery altogether. It was also clear that slaves had no distinct class or any class at all, and no education was proposed to them before and after the Mexican American war