Greek playwrights explored moral and social issues, and relationships between the people and the gods. They also wrote tragedies to relieve people of pity and fear and comedies which ridiculed modern day issues.
<span>The Crisis is a call to support the "abolitionist" cause, since this was published primarily in the days before the Civil War, when the nation was highly divided on the issue. </span>
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
It hurt the south for a while, slave labor was good for the south's economy but bad for competition up north because nobody could find a job if all the slaves worked for free. The removal of slavery cemented this competition-based method into America.
