Wills Matt WeissU.S. History I April 3, 2000The South and SlaveryThe Societies of the North and South were very different. They were two regions of the country that depended very heavily on each other but yet seemed so far apart. Disagreeing on almost every aspect of how to reside and especially on very specific issues like slavery and emancipation.The North was an industrious, moneymaking, region. They respected blacks and gave them more rights than in the South where they had none. They still were not given the same rights as whites. Theodore Weld an influential abolitionist wrote many pamphlets. In one he stated. “Reader, what have you to say of such a treatment? Is it right, just, benevolent? Suppose I should seize you, rob you of your liberty, drive you into the field, and make you work as long as you live—would that be justice and kindness, or monstrous injustice and cruelty?”(Weld 464, The Annals of America) “We will prove that the slaves in the United States are treated with barbarous inhumanity; that they are overworked, underfed, wretchedly clad and lodged, and have insufficient sleep…”(Weld 466, The Annals of America) The South made money, but the economy was based on agriculture. They did not have the factories or the work force of the North. So they turned to something even more prosperous, slavery. This peculiar institution is strongly defended, even using the Bible. William Harper wroteThe Inequality of Man in 1837, which argued that all men are not created equal. “Then inequality is further developed, and becomes infinite in every society, and under whatever form of government. Wealth and poverty, fame or obscurity, strength or weakness, knowledge or ignorance, ease or labor, power or subjection mark the endless diversity in the condition of men.”(Harper 342, The Annals of America) The South used their own slave work force to build their Cotton ...
