Question

the south was largely a farming region that used enslaved africans to work in cotton fields. how were the states in the north different?

Answer 1

The states in the North did not need slaves, rarely anyone from the North had slaves later on because of how the North felt about them. But back to the topic at hand, slaves in the North weren’t used for farming or on plantations like in the south, because the North didn’t have these things, they had slaves as servants. Mainly rich households only had slaves, as a sign of power, they had slaves to help with chores and tasks for the owners of the slaves. Furthermore, Northerners did not treat their slaves like they were dirt like Southerners did, Northerners treated their slaves as if they couldn’t live without them. That is how the North and the South are different when it comes to slaves.