Because both sides were certain that they would win.
That cotton was America's biggest export, so the institution of slavery was beneficial. That slaves were simple, happy folk, content with their lot. That the slaves were much better-off in America than they would have been in Africa. That slavery was a perfect God-given arrangement of master and man. They called it a states rights issue. They argued that slaves were property or animals, not people, and were thus not entitled to rights. The best "scientists" of that day considered people with dark skin to be inferior. The southerners said slavery was necessary to help the economy. They convinced themselves that they were doing people from Africa a favor. They argued that slavery was a time-honored tradition and that even Africans sold other Africans into slavery.
The loss of slavery would threaten the Southern economy.
Because if slavery did not end nothing would be the same.
He would have immediately caused poor relations between himself and states that approved slavery, but remained part of the union. States such as Maryland, who were pro-slavery, would have left the union, as well. The Civil War was fought over the expansion of slavery, not the essence of slavery itself.
albert barnes
Albert Barnes
To preserve slavery and have their own nation where slavery would exist.
most southerns will go to their graves believing it was all about state rights and taxes. if only they would read the declaration of sessesion and the fugitive slave act they could die knowing the TRUTH.
harriet tubman would dislike the south, or the confederacy. More because of the slavery and the punishments that happened there.
They threaten they would kill them.
The book was about slavery and it showed the harsh realities of it. It made the Southerners fear that slavery would be abolished because of it. The pro slavery even made books like Aunt Phillis' Cabin and Uncle Robin in His Cabin in Virginia and One in Boston.
She didn't dislike any of her new friends.
To make it equally
It would displease the author if no one would buy his new book.
He hopes they would end it
Because both sides were certain that they would win.