Was there a difference between slaves that lived in the North and in the South?

Answer 1

Southern leaders were highly motivated to defend slavery because it was the mainstay of the vastly profitable cotton industry. As the slavery debate heated-up in the 1850's, they put pressure on church ministers to preach that slavery was a perfect God-given arrangement of master and man. This began to influence people who should have known better. Robert E. Lee declared that slavery was an evil which the Almighty would bring to an end when He saw fit. Lee cannot seriously have believed this.

The North was not united against slavery by any means, but the Abolitionists were a powerful lobby, and they also encouraged preachers to denounce slavery as a sin against human beings created in the image of the Lord.

It should be noted that the men in the ranks of the two armies in the Civil War mostly didn't care about slavery, one way or the other.

Answer 2

In the years leading up to the Civil War, the principal differences between northern and southern states in the American Union were two in number. First, the South was agricultural (and cotton-centered), while the North was both industrial and in control of the vast majority of the commercial fleets operating on behalf of national trade. Secondly, the South relied almost entirely on slave-labor for economic success, while the North did not. Additionally, it should be noted that the North contained over double the number of people than lived in the South, which would translate into greater numbers of soldiers available for service in wartime.

Answer 3

They were alike because it was wrong either way but one reason it was different is that in the north you could buy you're freedom in the south you couldn't thank you for you're time ;]

Answer 4

In the north most African Americans were free and in the south most were enslaved and at work on plantations

Answer 5

in the south they lived together in communities ( slaves)

Answer 6

the north opposed slavery, while the south was all for it

Answer 7

The slaves of the Upper South were treated better than those in the Deep South. That's why they dreaded being 'sold down the river'.

Answer 8

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