billion or 17.1 billiondollars. This is the price both sides were willing to pay in the name ofslavery. The North and South went to war over the issue of slavery andendured a great expense in terms of human lives, and money. They couldhowever have followed the example of Britain, Sweden, and Holland andsimply signed away the institution of slavery and saved thousands of lives,and billions in dollars. However, the south was too deeply rooted in theinstitution of slavery, and when the Emancipation Proclamation came whichfreed the slaves they still treated them as they did before, often outside ofthe legal limits. Even after the 14th amendment which legally made peopleof color American citizens, there were strong racial and prejudicial feelingswhich ran rampant in the south, for example the KKK, and Jim Crow Laws, and literacy tests for the right to vote. African Americans endured thesehardships for years and slavery still exixts in some way, form, or fashion outthere in the world today in the year 2001. Slavery was one of the numberone events in our country that was not a whole cause but part of a cause forwar in the united states. It also is a n event that has disgraced and put shameto the culture of african americans.Even though not everyone owned slaves,one bad apple spoils the bunch. Hopefully people will learn from history,and immoral actions or events like slavery will not take place again. As Iconclude this paper I would just like to add taht I feel that alot of the thingsin the late 1700’s and early 1800’s could have truly been prevented ifpeople were willing to compromise. But it seems as if the stubborness of thepeople today is literally deeply rooted from the ones’ before us. Do youthink the war were fighting now could lead to the financial burden and thenext recession as it did during the other wars fought in or country? I ask youthat because i’m quite unsure but I do know the world is supoosed to be...
