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The people in power in the south were making money out of slavery.
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Why did the proclamation not actually affect anyone?
It did, in a sense, because it legally set the slaves free. However, the south chose to ignore this new law, so no southern slaves were actually free.
How did the south react to what Lincoln set out to do?
Lincoln actually didn't set out to do anything until the south seceded from the union. He then put together an army to try to reunite the country. The south was mad because they thought that Lincoln would take away their slaves so they also had an army to resist the north. Soooo, basically the south reacted to Lincoln, who was trying to reunite the union not abolish slavery, by raising an army and attacking to north so they could keep their slaves.
Did slaves have to go north or south to get out of a slave state?
The slaves headed to the union so which was in the north.
Why were slaves used instead of Europeans in the south?
You didn't have to pay slaves, so the cost of labor was lower.
Why was life so different after south lost especially because so few southerners actually owned slaves?
Why was life so different after the south lost especially because so few southerners actually owend slaves
How can people be so inhumane as to capture people and keep them as slaves and kill thousands because of their religion?
By caputuring people, keeping them as slaves and killing them because of their religion.
Why were there so many slaves in the south?
Because in the south there were a lot of rice and tobacco crops to be picked,therefore the farmers needed slaves to work on the field and farm.
It is a word for why Americans were so anxious for their own freedom while keeping slaves?
Slave were not considered people. They were property.
Why was john browns raid on harpers ferry important?
So that the slave owners would a lesson on keeping slaves
When slaves was liberated?
slaves werent supposed to be literate during slavery so they only became literate when they escape from the south
Did blacks fight for the south during the civil war?
Yes they were promised to get there freedom, so the slaves fought for the south.
Who in the eighteenth century what colony was the leader in this slave trade?
South Carolina had so many slaves that there were more African slaves than Caucasian citizens. Because of its role in the business of slavery, South Carolina had a lot of authority in Southern policy-making in the eighteenth century.
