SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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they began to see their mistakes and immediately called for abolition
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they seceded the day after it was published
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they felt threatened by such a strong opposition to slavery and banned it
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they began to fight for the enslavement of whites
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Detailed explanation-1: -Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America’s southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Growing opposition to slavery was not always grounded in antislavery or abolitionist sentiment; it was spurred by economic concerns, anxieties over blacks as equals, and fear of slave revolts. Source: William Lloyd Garrison, “Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society, ” 1833.
Detailed explanation-3: -Opposition to slavery started as a moral and religious movement centered on the belief that everyone was equal in the eyes of God. Not confined to a single church, early antislavery sentiment was common among Mennonites, Quakers, Presbyterians, Baptists, Amish, and other practitioners of Protestant denominations.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, Slavery, and the Civil War Stowe’s candor on the controversial subject of slavery encouraged others to speak out, further eroding the already precarious relations between northern and southern states and advancing the nation’s march toward Civil War.