According to Jefferson Davis’s speech given to the Confederate army in October 1863, he claimed that the South was “forced to take up arms” to defend its “freedom” and “State sovereignty” against the threat of “slavish submission to despotic usurpation” from the North. This speech is the explanation of the South’s participation in the war. However, it is only an apologia for maintaining the slavery. I completely support the North in the Civil War, not because it is the winner, but because it has more reasonable reasons to take up arms.
Firstly, the North was fighting for the slaves. It is no doubt to say that the slavery which is the most evil system used to exist in the world. It started form the ancient time when it is known as a part of ancient civilization2. Slavery at that time is described as the punishment for crime, the enslavement of prisoners of war, child abandonment, and the birth of slave children to slaves. They are just initial ideas about slavery of the ancient time. Later, with the civilization, slavery spans nearly every culture, nationality and religion. Slaves were used as a tool for developing agriculture purpose. When many countries in the world,