cruelty? There was nothing good about slavery.
They argued that slavery contributed to the prosperous economy.
Slavery
Very few places still have slavery like for example Egypt and china.......
The American Civil War was caused not by slavery but by economic factors.
Harriet Tubman is one example of a person who was born into slavery but later escaped and became a prominent abolitionist and advocate for the Underground Railroad.
One example of someone who was not an advocate for the abolition of slavery was John C. Calhoun. Calhoun was a prominent southern politician who vehemently defended slavery and argued for its preservation. He believed that slavery was a positive good and essential for the southern economy and way of life.
Modern slavery is still present throughout the world. In Europe, it is most common in Eastern Europe, for example, in Russia. It is known as human trafficking.
The south treated their slaves much more fairly than the deep southern states. (South example: North Carolina) (Deep South example: Georgia, South Carolina) Maryland treated their slave fairly, and they were considered a northern state.
One example of enslaved people resisting slavery is the Stono Rebellion of 1739 in South Carolina. Enslaved Africans rose up, seized firearms, and killed several white colonists before being captured and punished.
There are many different answers to this question due to all of the different opinions of this topic. I feel that the legacy of slavery is hate. For example, in the time of slavery, lynching was a very popular way of executing a runaway slave. Today, nooses have been found on trees and on peoples doors. This is why I feel that hate is the legacy of slavery.
Abolition means to legally stop something. For example, the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in the United States, making slavery illegal.
Northerners generally opposed slavery, seeing it as immoral and wanting to abolish it. Southerners, on the other hand, relied on slavery for their economy and were invested in maintaining the institution. This fundamental disagreement over the moral and economic aspects of slavery eventually led to the American Civil War.