Northern Attack on the South Term Paper

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Slavery actually began to lose favor in the United States as capitalism began to gain popularity. In the Northern part of the country capitalism was taking hold and thousands of workers found themselves employed for wages that would barely cover the basic needs of survival for their families.

During his presidency, Abraham Lincoln, who has been championed as a hero for ending slavery, actually made statements publicly that he was interested in preserving the union, and had no interest in ending slavery.

There was little danger of slavery spreading outside the South. Republicans, Robert William Fogel writes, "urged the Northern electorate to vote for them not because it was their Christian duty to free the slaves but in order to prevent slaveholders from seizing land in the territories that rightly belonged to Northern whites, to prevent slaveholders from reducing the wages of Northern workers by inundating Northern labor markets with slaves, and to prevent the 'slave power'... from seizing control of the American government." In other words, Northerners recognized slavery to be a threat to their businesses."

Before the Civil War ever began there was evidence that slavery was a dying practice.....