ther on terms of social and politically equality.” These augments over slavery were really arguments for power of states being either a slave state or a free state. Slavery became another issue in which the republicans and democrats took opposing sides on. Their whole purpose of arguing their side on the topic of slavery is to gain votes for their respective party. The debates over slavery were not over the well being of the slaves but rather for increased power of the two parties.The issue over slavery argued economically stating that slaves kept the southern agricultural nation, which meant they were dependent on the north for industrial goods. Even though there were people in the south that worked with manufacturing industrial goods, there was no demand for it, even from the southerners. Helper states,” Owing to the absence of a proper system of business amongst us, the north becomes, in one way or another, the proprietor and dispenser of our floating wealth, and that we are dependent on northern capitalists for the means necessary to build our rail roads, canals and other public improvements.” Only a small minority benefited financially from having slavery and a much larger ignorant population of slave owners live in poverty and forced to flee from their homes (3). Helper blames their economic inferiority on the slaves. He is not against the use of slavery or how its morally wrong but more concerned with the balanced wealth of southern white folk. Helper is against slavery because it hinders the white southerners economic growth. Socially, slavery is wanted because white people do not want to hang out with black people. They feel blacks are inferior in everyway and would bring down the high social class of whites. Douglas states,” Do you desire to turn this beautiful state into a free Negro colony?” This is a question that intends to scare white people opposed of slavery and make them re...
