plantations of cotton, tobacco, and other crops were grown.
Slavery was less visiable in the North, since economic activity were mainly centered on small farms and industries. as a consequence, there were less slaves in the North of the country.
During the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), many people turned against slavery.
Opposition to slavery developed more rapidly in the North, but some Southerners, including such leaders as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, spoke out against slavery too. However, the profits from slavery had far greater influence than any moral issues.
During the 1800's voices against slavery became stronger. Noted philosophers and religious leaders in Europe and North America declared that slavery violated human rights. North and South were in opposite sides.
Abolition Movement
Abolition Movement took place in the 1800's with the purposeto put an end to slavery. Most abolitionist desmontrations and activities happened in the USA and Great Britain, although some other countries expressed their dissaproval about it too.
The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816, led antislavery protests during the early 1800's.
Many famous abolitionists came from New England. They included Garrison, poets James Russell Lowell and John Greenleaf Whittier, and reformer Wendell Phillips.
Women also played an important role in the abolition movement. Lucretia Mott and the sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimke organized groups and made speeches. Many free blacks also joined the abolitionists.
In Britain, abolitionists worked to end the international slave trade and to free slaves in the British colonies. Slavery had never flourished in England itself. On the other hand, many English people had become wealthy through the slave trade.