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Prompt: Were the national differences over slavery before 1850 due to economic, political, legal, or moral disagreements? Although the abolishment of slavery, before 1850, was motivated by moral disagreements, political factors influenced actions that brought about national differences. In spite of the North’s primary issue of slavery was the immortality and unconstitutionality of it, the argument of unemployment due to slavery motivated the North further to take strong action against slavery in the south. In 1830, an argument over emancipation of slaves, created a division between the North and the South. The South had a strong agricultural economy, which thrived upon the slave labor, and abolishing it would be a detriment to not only their economy but the nation’s as well. The North stated that slavery was ruinous to white, non-slave owners, based on the fact that slavery took the majority of occupations available, leaving white people in North as well as the South unemployed.
Approximate Word count = 517
Approximate Pages = 2.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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