Slavery Dbq Essay

Slavery, an immoral action in which African Americans were forced to work under harsh and inhuman conditions without pay and treated as property, occurred for 245 countries years in the Unites States. In modern day this in no longer an issue that is widely dealt with on a daily bases unlike during the 17th to 19th where it was a common day to day thing that at first many would overlook. It was such a huge issue especially during the 19th century in which it caused major political controversies due to the separation of sides based on it if was constitutional, immoral, and support the to help slaves. All through document a it is seen that slavery was the reason for political disputes. First the document states that each state should be allowed to control and make their own judgement on political matters (document A). Across

Garrison, an American abolitionist reveals a different political controversy on slavery. He believes that neither slavery nor the Union should exist for the reason that these slaves are Americans whom are being crushed under the Union (document C). What Garrison means by this is that Americans, in other words slaves, are being overworked and the adequate attention is not being brought to the subject. Instead all the government wants to do is keep the Union together and if the Union is causing this now it must be overthrown in order to receive freedom. Here, the slavery topic brings political controversy especially since Garrison makes it clear that if the Union with holds slaves, they, the abolitionist, will separate from the union because they wish to hold no innocent blood of innocent Americans (document C). This may create an even larger dispute now since now there are 3 major ways in which the situation is looked upon. The people of the country, at that time had a choice to either be in favor of the Union and slavery, in favor of the union and against slavery, or against both the Union and