What Was Slavery A Controversial Issue In Early America?

Throughout history, slavery had been a controversial issue early America. Slaves treated harsh treatment such as abusing and tortured. During the Civil War (1863), President Lincoln claimed the end of slavery. It happened when the North won the war in 1865. The Congress and the states voted to change the Constitution so that it slavery could be illegal and all the slave in the South became free. Even though, slaves were freed they still didn’t have chance to do what they want. For example, they still didn't own any land to farm and if they tried to get land, white people attacked them. According to slaves after the civil war presentation, “ the Jim Crow system that favored the rich white people.The system was established by middle-class and upper- class whites. …show more content…
Blacks were given the worst jobs for a lower payment.Most of them were kept on planting and picking cotton but called sharecroppers instead of slaves. A lot of the sharecropper were starving to death because there was not a lot of cottons to sell and freed them. For a lot of people, there were not much difference. The only change they had were fewer beatings and children and husband was not taken away. Most of the times white people still terrified black people by killing them for nothing and no white judge or jury in the south would send any white man to jail for killing a black man. Black people accused of being crimes. Moreover, most of the times we are taught that slavery after the civil war was better, but concentrate on this presentation I had come to realizing that slave was treated the