How Did Slavery Affect The United States

Slavery had always had its critics in America, so as the slave trade grew, so did the opposition. The slave labor enabled the colonies to become so profitable, that in 1660 England's King Charles the second established the royal African company to transport humans from Africa to America. When England finally outlawed its slave trade in 1807, America relied on its own internal slave trade. By 1860, millions of slaves were still moved and sold in the colonies, but no new slaves were imported into the US after 1808. In 1820, the Missouri compromise banned slavery in all new western states, the South saw this as a threat. The country began to divide around the 18th century over the North and South issue.
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In the North people were against slavery, but in the South they thought something else. In the South people were taught to think that slavery was a natural concept. The defenders of slavery meant that they could not end servitude, considering that slave labor was the foundation of their economy. They also meant that freeing the slaves would lead to anarchy and chaos, and that slavery had existed throughout history and was a common state of mankind. The North side didn’t rely on slave work as much as the South side did. The North side did not like slavery and meant that it was heartless. Other groups (religious groups), thought that it was gruesome and inhuman, while others were busy thinking about their …show more content…
The slaves would aid in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton. Slavery was an central importance to the South side’s economy. The differences between the South and the North would provoke a big debate, that would tear the nation apart in the gruesome Civil war. Slavery ended after the North won the civil war in 1865, after Abraham Lincoln ratified the thirteenth amendment law. There were many opinions, especially in the South. The southerners meant that slavery had always been around and that it was natural. The North side meant that it was not right, while other religious groups thought it was horrific. After the Civil war, problems would still appear for the freed slaves. Despite of that the beatings, the sexual assaults, and the selling was long gone, life would not be easy for the African-Americans. The South made new laws, known as the black code. It indicated that «negroes» were not aloud to do certain things such as own land, or even carry weapons. Although it was a new law and an new era, it would not change peoples