*When I was little and started working on the plantation, I thought that was what I was going to do forever. My Daddy worked on the plantation and his Daddy before him, and his Daddy before him. It was the only thing my family ever did and probably the only thing we was ever going to do. My job didn’t seem so important to me, I just picked the cotton everyday and tried to stay out of trouble to escape the beating from the white men. Sometimes me and my friends were beaten for laughing and fooling around during the day. Life was hard and one day we wanted to see a change.

*Sometimes we’d hear the older folks talking ‘bout being freed but we never thought it was really going to happen. Wasn’t ‘til the early 1800’s when I started believing them. Late at night on the plantation black folks would gather ‘round and start talking about the north and how they was looking to free us blacks. Said they were trying to argue whether or not slavery was morally right. Northern folks said it was against god to enslave any man against his own will and that it was a sin. Southern folks argued right back that in the bible there are slaves of the disciple

*As time passed on, tension grew between the north and south. Men settled westward and there were a lot of problems deciding weather or not to make the new states slave states or free states. Most territories were decided by majority to be slave states. People said the government was making different compromises and territories to try and even everyone out. Unfortunately tension ran high between the two sides and rumors began spreading ‘round ‘bout Men black and white who was causing a stir in the country. One black man Nat Turner supposedly murdered white men all over because he had a message from god to do so. Nobody knows for sure if this is true but I reckon something must be happening if there’s all this talk. Not only was black men fighting but white men from the north was causing trouble on our account too.

*Son, there comes a time in every man’s life when he needs to fight for a cause. As the north prospered in industry and had a budding economy, the south slowly fell apart. They were dependant solely on one thing, slavery. Slavery was easy for them because it was cheap. They didn’t have to pay for workers and they made a great profit which they kept for themselves. Meanwhile only 11% of the southern population was rich plantation owners and the rest lived in poverty. The wealthy and powerful were ignorant to the failing southern economy around them. They firmly believed they could thrive on agriculture and slavery and the threat of it being taken away was something that scared them unlike anything else.

*Succession was something that enraged the north. They thought it was illegal for states to leave the Union and form there own country. The south was talking about becoming the Confederate States where they made there own laws and constitution and where they’d never have to get rid of slavery.

*If you ask me the causes of the civil war were angers fueled by the southern states. When Lincoln was finally elected president the south decided they’d take no more. They felt they was getting absolutely no representation in there government and that there needs weren’t going to be tended too. They thought the only way they were going to be taken care of was by forming there own government and own country. There was no way the north was going to allow them to succeed so the war started.

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