Slavery Slavery played a distinctive role in the difference of society between the South and the North. The two parts of one Union were very different in views on slavery. Slavery defined the essential quality of the South. Slavery made the South very different from the North educationally, morally, and politically. The North was celebrating a new era of liberty while the South was contrasting it by the policy of slavery. While modernization was reaping …showed first 75 words of 459 total…

…showed last 75 words of 459 total…North did. The South’s economy was to heavily based on the production of cotton. The abolishment of slavery would have deadened the economy severely. England and the North depended on the South producing cotton. It was a way of life in the south to have slaves. Even ministers and priests found nothing wrong with the policy. Ministers preached that this was the will of God, and we were following out his orders.(Microsoft Encarta)