Brutality Of Slavery In The 1800s

In the 1800s, slavery continued to grow and started to cause argument in the United States. The brutality of slavery was something the North could not understand, while it was a way of life in the South. The North and South started to dispute about slavery. Slavery became a more serious issue and the United States continued to mature as a nation. Along with slavery, the conflict between the North and South sustained. With the increase in land, the growth of government, slavery added tension in the country morally and politically.
Since slavery was such a controversial idea, there were many different opinions on it. There were the abolitionists who supported the freedom of slaves and believed that the slaves deserved freedoms that other

One compromise that involved slavery was the Missouri Compromise. Once America had gained new land, the big decision was whether slavery should be implemented there or not, Missouri wanted to be a slave state and this started a national debate. Northerners did not want slavery to spread, but also they did not want the pro-slavery states to gain majority in Congress. It was decided that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine would be a free state, these types of debates would continue with the growth of America and the gaining of land. Another event that stirred up dispute from slavery was the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, this showed the world, the malice of slavery. Many in the North were outraged by the brutality of slavery, while the South complained of the lies being told about them through this book. This book furthered the division between the North and South and increased tensions. Another event that lead to the Civil War through slavery was John Brown’s raid, Brown was an extreme abolitionist who attempted to rally up slaves in Virginia to rebel against their owners. Although it was a failure, John Brown was known as a martyr for slavery and made others realize how serious of an issue slavery was. The final event that ultimately started the Civil War was Lincoln’s election. With his party’s anti-slavery movement, the South knew that slavery would soon come to an end, so with that in mind, South Carolina decided to secede from the Union, other Southern states soon followed. This literally tore the Union apart. Lincoln knew that something would be done, in his house divided speech he said that one way or another slavery would either end all together or become a way of life, “Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and put it in course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till