White people in the south were very critical of northern business owners. Their main criticism of the northern business owners was the poor way that they treated their workers.
not caring for their workers
The Commerce Compromise addressed the conflict between Northern businessmen and Southern plantation owners over the issue of tariffs.
The Commerce Compromise addressed the conflict between Northern businessmen and Southern plantation owners over the issue of tariffs.
The loss of slavery would threaten the southern economy
Northern business owners, those who owned large enterprises, especially textile mill owners, believed that their products like cotton they bought in the South would rise in price if free labor was used in the large Southern plantations.As an aside, may immigrant workers feared that new Black freed slaves would work cheaper then they did. Thus, endangering their jobs.
because southern slaves are stupid
Southern states sent men into the northern states to bring back ANY African Americans.
southern slave owners and northern slave traders banded together in the congress to strike out this PASSAGE ON SLAVERY.
Southern slave owners feared that Northern attitudes toward slavery, which were increasingly abolitionist, would threaten their economic and social system based on slave labor. They worried that Northern efforts to limit the expansion of slavery into new territories would eventually lead to its abolition in the South. This fear stemmed from the understanding that Northern abolitionist sentiment posed a direct challenge to the institution of slavery that was foundational to the Southern way of life.
The loss of slavery would threaten the Southern economy.
the reason the northern states allowed slave trade to continue was so they could have laws they wanted passed to be agreed with by the southern states. within doing this, there was a compromise and the northern states agreed to it. so, the slaves we left as property to the plantation owners and northern states didn't have to return run away slaves to their owners.
They opposed it because they received cotton from the southern plantations for clothes so slavery was also a source of money for them.