During the 1800s, large plantation owners in the South wanted slavery. They used slave labor to do the work that drove the economy, so they felt that without slavery, they would not be able to remain rich and prosperous.
The Confederacy did not want to abolish slavery. In fact, they wanted to expand slavery into the new territories of the US.
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An abolitionist.
What the framers wanted when they wrote the constitution
abolitionist
The Abolitionists.
The civil war is more US history because the whole country was at war. The northern states wanted slavery to end. The southern states wanted slavery to thrive.
No, the Union wanted to end slavery, that was the reason was for the Civil War. The Confederacy wanted slavery
Slaves were wanted by the south, but the north wanted slavery abolished.
No. North wanted to end slavery and south wanted slavery
In the period before and during the US Civil War , a person who wanted to end slavery was called an Abolitionist - because he or she was in favor of the abolition of slavery. A good example of an abolitionist is Abraham Lincoln in America, but in England, William Wilberforce was one of the major abolitionists.Although Lincoln was personally against slavery he was not an abolitionist. An abolitionist wanted to end slavery all at once as an of the government. Lincoln saw no solution to the slavery problem and worked for keeping the UNion whole as his priority.
The South wanted to leave the union because of slavery.