Slavery In The Southern States During The 19th Century

During the 19th century, the northern states were industrially and commercial advanced compared to the southern states. They had dense cities, developed technology, and steam powered factories. Most northern cities housed free blacks that could have owned a thriving and successful business, but racism was common and interracial marriage was illegal. The Southern states were more agricultural and rural than the northern states. Southern landholders had black slaves work the land. Even though the north population outnumbered the south, most firearm production was made in the south. As more people moved to colonize the western territory of the U.S, which they received from the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican War, the balance between free and slave states was tipped. The northern states opposed having the new western territory as
Eleven years later in the August of 1831, a slave named Nate Turner influenced a rebellion, which spread throughout southern Virginia. Turner, leading a small army of seventy people killed about sixty white people. After two days of the merciless killings, a militia subdued the insurgence. The Virginia lawmakers reacted by removing what few civil rights slaves and free blacks had.
In 1850, the Compromise of 1820 helped save the sudden cessation of the Union, prevent a war, and alleviate the north and south hostilities. The law prevented any territorial expansion further south of slavery and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, which made northerners capture and return escaped slaves. This only made the north more enraged against slavery in the south.
A few years later in 1852, an author named Harriet Beecher Stowe made a fiction book of the exploration of slave life. This only made the northern and southern hostilities greater as the propaganda became a cultural