The Presence of Slavery in Antebellum America
During the decades after the War of 1812, American possessed a strong sense of nationalism. This pretentious concept of nationalism allowed the nation to settles its increasing differences between diverse areas of the United States. However, by the mid-nineteenth century. The efforts to that attempted to unite the country in the past were useless against the recently more intense pressure that were working to divide the nation and inevitably cause a bitter "civil" war. In order to determine that slavery was one of the main causes of the American Civil War, the social, political, and economical aspects of this cruel institution must be identified.To begin with, there were many social problems concerning slavery and its role in American society. The Black family was utterly destroyed. Many slaves were separated from their families because they were sold or traded. This resulted in a majority of the slaves not knowing their heritage, not knowing when or where they came from. Abolitionists in the North and the South saw this "peculiar institution" as a cruel, degrading system that exploited African Americans. But White southerners defended slavery and tried to portray it as a good, beneficial program. For example Ulrich
Economically, the South mainly relied on mass cotton and tobacco production. Of course, the only obvious means, or so they imagined, supporting this system was mass slavery. During this prosperous agricultural growth, Southerners found fortune in slave trade. The frequent movement of slaves from state to state ultimately resulted in the development of the Southwest. Many times slaveholders relocated and migrated to new cotton areas accompanied by their slaves. Professional slave traders transported slaves over long distances in trains, by boats, or on foot in chain gangs. At a slave auctions, the slaves were sold like live stock, looking at their teeth, seeing how strong or healthy they were. Between the 1840 and 1860, healthy male slaves were sold varyingly from $500 to $1700, relying mostly on the wavering price of cotton. A sexually attractive female might be valued for much more. Although southern slave trade was crucial to the South's prosperity, it had dire, degrading effects on everyone involved. It wrecked the Black family as a whole. In summary, the differences between the North and the south were a consequence of differences of natural resources, differences in social system, differences in climate, and ultimately differences in morals. Overall, they were the outcome of the presence within the South an unliberated labor system that prevented the kind of social mobility that a commercializing society generally demands and that possessed a significant percentage of southern populace in enfeebling enslavement. In favor of conc
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