USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The reality is that the North’s opposition to slavery was based on political and anti-south sentiment, economic factors, racism, and the creation of a new American ideology.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most northerners did not doubt that black people were inferior to whites, but they did doubt the benevolence of slavery. The voices of Northern abolitionists, such as Boston editor and publisher William Lloyd Garrison, became increasingly violent.

Detailed explanation-3: -With the Emancipation Proclamation, the struggle between North and South transformed into a war to end slavery. Concurrent with the war’s end in 1865, the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Slavery was declared illegal in every part of the newly restored Union.

Detailed explanation-4: -Slavery was a dominant feature of the antebellum South, but it was also pervasive in the pre-Civil War North-the New England states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island all have a history of slavery.