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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
How Abolition Removed Slavery From United States
Hardships of Slavery will never be forgotten... http://www.flickr.com/photos/33678919@N07/6466694643 |
Throughout the 1800s due to economic developments, the United States was divided into two sections, the North and the South. The North was beginning to industrialize with innovations such as creating factories while the South was remaining more agricultural with producing such products like cotton and tobacco. The cheapest way the south could produce massive amounts of these crops were to rely on slave labor in order to build profit. Not all citizens were in favor of slavery, in fact Abolitionists were focusing to persuade Americans that "slavery was a sin that couldn't be allowed to exist" (Streitmatter, 26). Could Abolitionists change the mind of a divided nation that slavery should be abolished?
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