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I will pay for the following essay Civil War Era: Slavery. The asks for 2 people in the description Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln will do. The essay is to be 6 pages with three to five sources,

I will pay for the following essay Civil War Era: Slavery. The asks for 2 people in the description Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln will do. The essay is to be 6 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.

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These came to be known as the Confederate states whose members were slave-owning states, and this led to the prominence of two men whose views on slavery were entirely opposite of one another. The first is Abraham Lincoln who was among the biggest proponents of the eradication of slavery in all the states within the union, and the other is Jefferson Davis who was a principal proponent of the institution of slavery and believed that it was a necessary part of the economy at the time. These two men shall be discussed in this paper in relation to their positions on the institution of slavery. The institution of slavery lasted for over three hundred and fifty years in what is today the United States until it was finally abolished in the eighteen sixties. It was one of the most brutal and dehumanizing institutions in the annals of the human race with the greatest victims being the African slaves. African slaves were imported like commodities from Africa to work in the large white owned plantations because they could withstand those European diseases, which normally killed the Indian slaves. Moreover, the ability of the Africans to work in the harsh conditions of a hot sun was seen to be an added advantage for their conversion to slaves. Europeans used various means to justify their enslavement of Africans, and one of these was that the bible stated that they were the children of Ham and that they had been cursed to be slaves to the other races that were descended from Noah. Another justification was the belief that Africans were subhuman. such that they were inferior to the white race and that because of this it was justifiable to treat them in any way one wanted because they had no human feelings at all. These highly mistaken concepts ensured that the slavery continued, and many Africans were brought to America and forced to undertake tasks under extremely harsh and brutal conditions for the sake of making a profit for their masters. It is for the purpose of ending this institution that the American Civil War took place, and despite the many lives lost, it was finally achieved with the defeat of the Confederate states in 1965 (Johnson 1242). Abraham Lincoln was a firm believer that the establishment of slavery was evil and that it had no place in the United States. From the commencement of his political vocation, he often stated that he was against slavery. At a time when there was often heated debate concerning whether slavery should be allowed in the new states that joined the union, Lincoln was one of those who believed that such a thing was not to be allowed. He quoted on several occasions, the principles of democracy as had been laid out by the Declaration of Independence (Guelzo 313). He stated that this declaration, in itself, made slavery unlawful because it considered all human beings to be equal none being the master of the other. On the other hand, Jefferson Davis was a firm believer in the institution of slavery and often stated that it was a fundamental part of the economic well being of the southern states (Coles 898). Since slavery kept the economy of the south running and this not only benefitted the states of the south alone, but the whole union Davis believed that it was not to be abolished.

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