Slavery: Main Issue in the US

     Through out the United States, people have made different assumptions about how the Civil War started. Many of the assumptions are true and some are off subjectively bias. But all of these assumptions have a common conflict, while the conflict is slavery. Slavery was the drive of the US economy and started the Civil War.

Slavery started here in the US in 1619 when the first African slave came to Virginia. These slaves were not recognized as human beings, but instead they we referred as to someone's "property." These slaves would be the start of this great import of slaves from Africa for the next couple hundred years until it's abolition in 1865.

 These slaves were mostly present in the southern part of the United States. This part of the United States gained extensive of amount of wealth from their cotton, tobacco, or sugarcane plantations. Most of the slaves were treated inhumanly given scraps of meals, small close quarters to live in with other slaves, and the scars on their body from being beat. Soon with the occurring inhumane treatment of the slaves people began making abolitionist groups, people against slavery, to end the tyranny of slavery. The south knowing their neighbor to the north was against slavery, realized how their economy would not survive with the abolition of slavery.  

The slavery issue affected the whole of the government and to the core of their purpose to meet.  Their discussions became extremely heated when slavery arose. One instance of their ansimsoty with each other's side of this hot topic was the Brooks and Sumner assault. A couple days after Senator Sumner gave his speech called " The Crime against Kansas" Brooks went to him and started mercilously beating him with his cane.

Brooks was agriatted by his speech and the repeated use of sexual imagery,"It is also important to note the sexual imagery that recurred throughout the oration, which was neither accidental nor without precedent. Abolitionists routinely accused slaveholders of maintaining slavery so that they could engage in forcible sexual relations with their slaves." Everyone in Congress and country realized how controversial this topic was between northern and southern people.

The slavery predicament affected the people of the United States as well. The people had 2 opinions with slavery. Their opinions had the views to be against slavery and want the abolition of it or the prolonging of slavery in the United States. This division made people very adamant about their opinion and willing to go to great lengths for their side to win. One major showing of this is John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.

 

People in the South took this raid as terrorism, the abolitionist North is willing to die for their movement to win. While people in the North are experiencing the effects of one persons effect on the view point of their movement.

The whole effect of the slavery issue is it is ripping the United States apart. Each side of the view on slavery is willing to die for their cause. It is clear slavery would lead to something greater and more terrifying then an assault on a senator in Congress and a little raid on an armory. This issue would lead up to a war which would last for 5 years and make the country see what one idea can tear them apart. So they must let go of their differences and unite.