Slavery Dbq Essay

Misael Caballero
12 December, 2017
Paper #3 From the 1790’s to the 1860’s, slavery was a topic of discussion which sparked controversy between the north and the south. The dispute here between the two is whether slavery should be enforced in the colonies or whether they should abolish it. In the north, it was known as the antislavery division full of abolitionists who believe that slaves should be free. Slaves also had much more freedom in the north where many states were known to be one hundred percent slavery free due to the high surplus of immigrating Europeans. Many slaves began to raise their voices to the unfair cruelty they were facing and this sparked even more controversy. According to document 2, “The Middle Passage,” by Olaudah

As stated in the article, “Differences in the Northern & Southern States in the 1800s” By Kevin Wandrei, “In the North, many blacks were free, and in states such as Massachusetts, New York and Ohio, 100 percent of the black population was free.” The union, also known as the north, was anti-slavery and for the most part, firmly believed it was wrong and cruel. In document 10, article titled, “Declaration of the Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society,” abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison stated that him and other abolitionists will do everything in their power to, “secure to the colored population of the United States, all the rights and privileges which belong to them as men, and as

According to document 14, “Letters of James Henry Hammond,” South Carolina, 1845 they state that, “You will say that man cannot hold property in man. The answer is that he can, and actually does, hold property in his fellow, all over the world, in a variety of forms, and has always done so.” The idea of slaves being property was one that southerners held with a tight grip. According to the article, “The Expansion of Slavery in the United States” by Nicholas Bunner, “Southerners used every legal tool at their disposal to protect their rights to own people, and force them to work for their masters’ profit.” Since crops such as cotton and tobacco were in high demand this was a massive reason as to why southerners wanted to keep