Answer:
Some northerners believed slavery was morally wrong. Southerners believed slavery was an essential part of their lives.
Explanation:
The Atlantic slave trade began around the fifteenth century and it typically involved the transportation of men and women from Africa to America as slaves by slave traders through the Atlantic Ocean.
According to history, this selfish actions were mainly perpetrated by the Portuguese. Approximately, 13 million men and women were transported to America as slaves.
In 1819, eleven (11) states in the Union permitted slavery and eleven (11) did not. The states that didn't permit slavery were referred to as free states and they included California, Minnesota, Iowa, New Jersey, Maine, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oregon, etc.
On the other hand, the states that permitted slavery were known as slave states and they included Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Kentucky, Texas, Missouri, Mississippi, etc.
The northern states had mixed views on issues bordering on slavery because some northerners (abolitionists) believed slavery was morally wrong, some sought to limit it to the southern states, some viewed African Americans (Blacks) as inferior, some favored it because they were profiting from it while other northerners feared they would loose their jobs to freed slaves.
Additionally, the Quakers and other northern religious leaders opposed slavery because they believed it was a sin for one person to own another person.
However, the southerners believed slavery was an essential part of their lives. Thus, many of them sought to expand it because their economy and way of life largely depended on enslaved labor. Also, the white southerners were of the opinion and believe that God created the African Americans (Blacks) as their laborers.
