slavery good or bad?

Question

back in the 1800's slavery was the most needed thing in the USA but was not liked in the north, what was the real issue behind that, i know that the north did not give a crap about them they had slavery too, so what was the big fuss anyone know please tell me

, we have a debate in American History

Answer 1

I think slavery was the best idea since the invention of the wheel.If it was up to me I would make it where they were still in chains doing work for the white man.And Im not talking about just black people green people mexicans, orientals, and all the soory people out there too stupid to go out side to check the mail without putting on make-up and everything in between. SO GO ON WITH YOUR BAD SELF HOME GURL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Answer 2

Some people were against slavery because of their religious beliefs, saying that it was a sin against God. Others simply had the belief that blacks are human and were against slavery because they had their conscience gnawing at them. A lot of them up north also probably just got riled up from all the anti-slavery stuff going around. In the south it wasn't a matter of human rights, but a matter of property. It was like being told that horses had rights. They had been taught that blacks were not human, and it can be close to impossible to change someone's thoughts on something they have been taught from birth. And think about it people: you have always been taught that a certain group of people (in this case African-Americans) are lower than you, in fact they're property. You've been taught that they aren't even human. And then someone goes and tells you that you're wrong, that you are enslaving human beings and that you need to stop. Even if you believe them, owning slaves is a heck of a lot cheaper than hiring people to work for you, and you've grown quite used to living how you do. So you keep living how you have been, and if your conscience bugs you, you justify it. "They're stupid, and so I'm helping them out by doing all that I do for them." It was an arguement over whether blacks are human or not, which is still an arguement today, as elizabeth a so kindly demonstrated.

Personally I believe that everyone should be treated equal, no matter their race, gender, age, or where they were born. Good luck with that debate.

Answer 3

Slavery was not needed in the United States.

Contrary to popular belief when slaves started coming to the United States it was in the 1600's because they could not get people to immigrate and they needed workers to work farms.

Slaves were being sold up and down the African coast so traders purchased slaves in Africa from Africans and brought them to the America's to be used as labor working on farms.

As time progressed more people immigrated and slavery became less and less popular. By the 1800's it was popular only on very large farms which were generally in the fertile and warmer areas of the south and in very large cities like New York.

Rich New Yorkers would go down south and purchase slaves and then bring them back up to New York. It was illegal, but, who cared as long as you had maids and footmen and such for free.

By the 1850's anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats decided to form the anti-slavery party, the Republican party. When slave holders found out how rapidly the anti-slavery party was growing they became frightened. In the 1860's the first anti-slavery President was elected and the slave holders knew that the only chance they had for the future was to withdraw from the union because slavery was on borrowed time.

Democrats prolonged the oppression by supporting segregation instead of slavery and fighting against civil rights.

The interesting thing about slavery is that the development of slavery in the United States and the oppression of African Americans in a democracy gave rise to the largest democratic movement for civil rights ever. The only other nation that had a similar problem, Australia, never had a civil rights revolution and really only followed in the footsteps of the United States.

Without slavery there would not have been such a large population of oppressed people in a democracy. Without that large population of people enduring oppression there would never have been a civil rights movement. Without the civil rights movement in the United States there would not have been a civil rights movement world wide. Without the civil rights movement we would not have the clamor for human rights that exist internationally today.

Slavery in the United States really gave birth to international civil and human rights groups.

Was slavery good or bad. Yes, it was both because out of the horrid fires came a steel that is helping carve a better world.

Answer 4

Slavery has always been a part of the human way of life. Abraham had slaves, Moses had slaves. The Romans enslaved half the world. Paul's Epistles, in the Bible tell you how to treat your slaves. They have not always been Africans that have been slaves. So you name callers back off. Slavery exists right here in the U.S. check out an Oriental Massage parlor. Check the Imperial Valley of California. You will find, if you research it that people have even sold themselves in to slavery. Also you will find that there has been very little human freedom in the history of the world. We find it abhorrent, but that is the way we have been conditioned. Others think nothing of it.

The biggest problem has always been outside interference. Harriet Beecher Stowe was greeted by Abe Lincoln with these words. "So, you are the little lady that helped start the big war." Her onesided book, Uncle Tom's cabin inflamed the do gooders up North. Like it or not people it happened.

Call me bigot and bad names. You mean nothing to me. Your reporting me to yahoo is tantamont to censorship. So go ahead.

Answer 5

Slavery is bad. I don't believe the North had slavery. But State's Rights and tariffs were other things that led to the Civil War. The South wanted more rights to the individual states and they didn't like paying the high taxes on imported goods. But the North wanted the tariffs because it made the goods that the industrialized North made cheaper in comparison.

Hope thats helpful.

Answer 6

If each body is less than some different person administration, whats the point of being a self sufficient being which includes your human being ideas? also if the slavery is because the slaves are very unfavorable or purely because they're a diverse colour, then extremely of searching people like that and use them as slaves, you may help you them. you understand i imagine animals have the right idea, humanity best suited fault is to imagine of your self above others. i'm hoping this helps.

Answer 7

Slavery was very bad. It was cruel and morally repugnant. But in the South slavery was economically necessary because the southern economy was based on agriculture. Agriculture demanded a lot of manual work. In contrast to the South, the economy of the North was mainly based on industry, which did not demand slave labor. Industry needs a free worker, not a slave. That's why northern states were against slavery and southern states were in favor of slavery.

Northern states were more advanced than southern states both economically and morally. Even now many southern states are very backward and immoral. Most of their representatives in the Congress are conservative, stupid and prejudiced against minorities.

Answer 8

slavery bad...

Northerners didn't like the institution... there were several people in the north, abolitionists, who wanted to end slavery. There were a lot of people, especially Christians, who felt that slavery was morally wrong despite its economic benefit.

Answer 9

The north didn't have slavery, quit listening to Al Sharpton.

Answer 10

Slavery was not needed. The blacks could have been just as efficient as basically unpaid sharecroppers.