Slavery
Slavery in America stems well back to when the New World was first discovered and was led by the country to start the African Slave Trade-Portugal. The African Slave Trade was first exploited for plantations in what is now called the Carribbean, and eventually reached the southern coasts of America. The African natives were of all ages and sexes. Women usually worked in the homes, cooking and cleaning, whereas men were sent out into the plantations to farm. Young girls would usually help in the house also and young boys would help in the farm by bailing hay and loading wagons with crops. Since trying to capture the native Indians, the Europeans set out to capture African slaves. The Europeans in what was called The Triangular Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade shipped the African natives from Africa. This was an organized route where Europeans would travel to Africa bringing manufactured goods, capture Africans and take them to the Caribbean, and then take the crops and goods and bring them back to Europe. The African people, in order to communicate invented a language that was a mixture of all the African languages combined. This language now varies from island to island. They also kept their culture, which accounts
Slavery was such an important part of Southern society; the South felt that they could not survive without it. That's why they were not willing to compromise with the North. To own slaves was a sign of wealth and social prestige and poor farmers who could not afford slaves had a goal to work for. The central cause of conflict between North and South was slavery, but it was only in it's expansion that it became a reason for war. The entrance of slavery into politics made it into a public issue, and once the issue became public the conflict had to be solved. The North didn't care about slavery as long as it stayed in the South. South Carolina seceded because Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was voted into office. The Republican Party threatened the South's expansion and so Southerners felt that they had no other choice. The United States was divided into three groups by the time the Civil War began: those who believed in the complete abolition of slavery, those who were against the expansion of slavery, and those who were pro slavery. The Republican Party was formed in opposition to southern expansion. Their views were Free Soil, FreeMen, and Free Labor. The Republicans were anti-South, but they were not abolitionists. They believed that slavery was a flawed system that made the south ineffective and because the North's free labor system was superior it must be guarded from southerners.
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