Northerners viewed abolitionism as a dangerous threat to the existing social system. Many in the North also had no desire to see the South's economy crumble. If this were to happen they would lose huge sums of money that Southern planters owed to Northern banks.
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Many Northerners were for the proclamation that ended slavery. However, there were Northerners who felt like Southerners and opposed it.
They opposed it because they received cotton from the southern plantations for clothes so slavery was also a source of money for them.
Northerners and Southerners were not ready to resort to violence to abolish slavery
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