Most Northerners were not so passionately anti-slavery that they were ready to sacrifice the cotton revenues by abolishing it.
Some northerners believed slavery was morally wrong. Southerners believed slavery was an essential part of their lives.
Some northerners came to admire him for trying to end slavery. :)
The main opposition came from Copperheads, who were Southern sympathizers. Irish Catholics opposed the war due to the draft.
Because it was the mainstay of the cotton industry, which represented half the exports of the USA.
Most Northerners were not so passionately anti-slavery that they were ready to sacrifice the cotton revenues by abolishing it.
Northerners opposed the Fugitive Slave Act because it required them to cooperate in the capture and return of runaway slaves, even if they were located in free states. Many Northerners viewed the act as a violation of states' rights and as a way to enforce slavery in territories where it was not supported. Additionally, some Northerners opposed the act on moral grounds, believing that it was unjust to send free individuals back into slavery.
Some northerners believed slavery was morally wrong. Southerners believed slavery was an essential part of their lives.
Many northerners would not report fugitives who were escaping slavery in the South because they opposed slavery and believed in helping individuals seeking freedom. Additionally, some northerners saw the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act as unjust and resisted cooperating with authorities seeking to return escaped slaves.
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Most Northerners were opposed to slavery, viewing it as a moral injustice and advocating for its abolition. This opposition to slavery became a key factor in the growing tensions between the North and South that ultimately led to the American Civil War.
Many Christians and Quakers were very opposed to slavery and protested against the U.S. government for a very long time to try to end slavery, and some Christians helped slaves escape to the north and provided hiding places for them along the way.
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.
just a little because some northerners had slaves too
True. There were some northerners who believed that if slavery remained in the South and did not spread to the new territories, it could eventually die out on its own. This viewpoint was known as "free soil" or "free labor" and was held by some abolitionists and moderate opponents of slavery.
Slavery is morally reprehensible. [NEW RESPONDENT] The North was becoming much more industrialised, and factory-managers couldn't use massed ranks of unskilled labourers. They wanted mobile, skilled people, including new arrivals from Europe.
Some northerners came to admire him for trying to end slavery.