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Slaveowners, and those who were strong supporters of states' rights. While many white Southerners did not own slaves, those who did often owned dozens or hundreds of them. If slavery was ended then they wouldn't be able to profit as much for their land and become wealthier. Slavery was an essential part of the economy in the Southern United States.
Some people supported the right to own slaves not because they owned slaves personally, but because they were strongly dedicated to states' rights. Because slavery was not mentioned during the writing of the Constitution, it was assumed that it could continue to exist, and could only be regulated by individual states. Those who argued for a federal ban of slavery were considered to be infringing on the rights of states to decide things or their citizens when the power was not explicitly given to the national government.
Additionally, many people in the United States were not actively for or against slavery, but utterly neutral.
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Why didnt south want slavery to end?
It made the cotton trade so profitable.
Why didnt people want to end slavery?
People didn't want to end slavery because they didn't like certain jobs and slavery took care of that. In other words, people were to lazy to do their jobs and slavery let them be lazy. I hope it helped=D
Why the rich whute man didnt want to end slavery?
Because it meant nice cheap labour for the lucrative cotton trade. There were also poor white trash who didn't want to end slavery, because it meant there would always be someone lower than them.
When did most northern states end slavery?
1862 was supposed to end it in the whole US with the emancipation proclimation but the south didnt listen
When did Massachusetts legalize slavery?
they didnt
Why didnt south want slavery to end?
It made the cotton trade so profitable.
Why didnt people want to end slavery?
People didn't want to end slavery because they didn't like certain jobs and slavery took care of that. In other words, people were to lazy to do their jobs and slavery let them be lazy. I hope it helped=D
What did Millard Fillmore want?
Millard Fillmore want slavery and didnt want slavery
Why was the history of slavery repressed for so long?
so many people tried to stop slavery like the north but the people in the south didnt want slavery to end so it then took them 200 years for the slavery to finnaly end
How did the north and the south differ in their ideas about extending slavery?
the north didnt want slavery but the south want slavery
What does an abolitionist want to do?
they wanted to end slavery
Why the rich whute man didnt want to end slavery?
Because it meant nice cheap labour for the lucrative cotton trade. There were also poor white trash who didn't want to end slavery, because it meant there would always be someone lower than them.
What else did martin Luther king jr do to end slavery?
he didnt
Who was a presidential candidate that opposed slavery but promised not to abolish it?
Abraham Lincoln, he didnt want to end it, but then again he just didnt want it to spread any further west than it had, for the fact that colonists did not want there agriculture and industry to soley depend upon slave labor.
What do you want to abolish?
to end slavery
Why did olaudah equiano want to end slavery?
Olaudah Equiano wanted to end slavery because he himself was enslaved and experienced the horrors and injustices of the system. He became a prominent abolitionist and used his own story to advocate for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
Did an abolitionist want slavery to end?
Yes. They wanted to abolish slavery.
