In the late 18th century, the extensive development of agriculture in the South of the US is exhausted, agriculture of the South begins to fall, especially plowed tobacco plantations. Together with the crisis of agriculture, slavery loses its role in the south. Around the same time, after the industrial revolution in the textile industry in Britain there is a big demand for US cotton. But cotton harvest is not very profitable occupation, since culture is a manual cleaning.
In 1793, a young American teacher named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a simple mechanized device that could effectively clean the cotton. His device was quickly widely used in agriculture, and for several years the US South reoriented to the production …show more content…
However, contrary abolitionists argued that the repressive actions against blacks lead to mass uprisings. Slave revolt influenced the strengthening of the abolitionist position in American society.
The emergence of the abolitionist movement
From 1830 until the 60s in the northern US enters into force abolitionist movement, whose leader was the former councils Fredrick Douglas, and white supporters - William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the radical newspaper "The Liberator", and Harriet Beecher Stowe, who published a bestseller antislavery novel "uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852).
Among the abolitionists were two views on slavery. Supporters of the first, believed that slavery was contrary to Christianity, and in itself is a sin. The other view, believed that slavery is not economically profitable and very repressive system.
Beginning in the 1780s free blacks and white abolitionists did their best to help the liberation of blacks from slavery. A network of shelters, where they could hide runaway …show more content…
The Supreme Court quashed the Missouri Compromise, ruling that all territories were open to slavery.
In 1859, after the execution of the head of the abolitionist John Brown, a terrorist, again there is a split among the American society. In the North, Brown was a folk hero, a freedom fighter of African Americans, and in the south a ruthless killer.
The Civil War and the abolition of slavery
Contradictions between slave and free states reached a critical point in the next year, when the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Within three months, seven Southern states seceded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America; four more will be included in the Confederacy during the Civil War (1861-65).
Although Linkola opposed slavery, but did not want to immediately split the nation by the abolition of the latter.
Only later, in connection with military necessity, and the growth of the abolitionist sentiment in the North and the flight of many of the slaves of the South, Lincoln took this