The Presence of Slavery in Antebellum America

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…climate, and ultimately differences in morals. Overall, they were the outcome of the presence within the South an unliberated labor system that prevented the kind of social mobility that a commercializing society generally demands and that possessed a significant percentage of southern populace in enfeebling enslavement. In favor of concluding that slavery was one of the principle reasons the American Civil War occurred, the societal, governmental, and commercial characteristics of this unnatural establishment are analyzed.