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Slavery was abolished by an amendment to the Bill of Rights section of the US Constitution. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
The states did not agree on slavery. The Northern states didn't need it and thought it was horrible. While the South relied heavily on it and didn't want it to be taken away from them. Which sparked the Civil War.
Maryland was the first US state to support slavery.
Slavery was a somewhat controversial issue at the time. The economies of the southern colonies relied on the institution, and they would never have agreed to join a nation where one of the stated aims was to eliminate it.
Slavery was less successful in the north due to the fact that the north was more of a merchant society than the south was. Slavery was more "necessary" in the south because of the vast amount of farmland that was present in the south. The north however, relied more on trading/
There were many people that opposed slavery. For this reason it was necessary to include a section that banned slavery for the passing of the US Constitution to go through..
I know cotton was one of them
The US constitution refers to slavery in Article I, Section 2, named the Enumeration Clause, where representatives are alotted. The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery in 1865 when it was passed by the Senate.
Slavery was abolished by an amendment to the Bill of Rights section of the US Constitution. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
Because they highly relied on slavery because they had an agricultural based economy
Because their economy relied on the slaves to pick cotton
Everybody?... Slavery was wide spread, everybody knew about slavery during the American Civil War, if you mean "Who believed in it?" then that is also hard to answer, as it was the Northerners, who had no use for slaves, and the southerners, who relied on them.
Charles Hodge
Southern states relied on slaves for their cotton production which was vital to their survival .
Montesquieu did not explicitly condemn slavery, but he did point out its dangers and inefficiencies in his work 'The Spirit of the Laws.' He argued that slavery was not well-suited for commerce or agriculture as it relied on force instead of the natural order.
In 1735, Maryland had a system that relied heavily on slavery for labor. Indentured servitude was also present but was not as prevalent as slavery. Slavery was deeply entrenched in the economy and society of Maryland during this time period.
Slavery was more important to the South than it was to the North, because the South's economy relied on agriculture.