I Introduction
During the pre-civil war era, slavery had its ups and downs. Before the cotton gin,
slavery was beginning to wind down and the many viewed it to actually lower the US
economy. That was the view until the cotton gin was invented. Eli Whitney's invention
reinvigorated slavery and cotton became king. The chief and immediate cause of the war
was slavery. Southern states, including the 11 states that formed the Confederacy,
depended on slavery to support their economy. Southerners used slave labor to produce
crops, especially cotton. Only a small percentage actually had slaves and few actually
treated them like family. The others treated the slaves like dirt and worked them to death.
Although slavery was illegal in the Northern states, only a small proportion of
Northerners actively opposed it. Many felt that slavery was wrong but had a air of
superiority about blacks, free and enslaved. The main debate between the North and the
South on the eve of......

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