Slavery In Thomas Jefferson's Disunion

Thomas Jefferson once said "A little rebellion now and then is a good thing". Great Britain created the thirteen colonies to collect valuable natural resources in order to pay for their debts. However, after years of mistreatment by Great Britain due to high taxes and lack of representation the thirteen colonies united and revolted against them. In the end, the colonies won their independence. As a result, they constructed their own system of government, which would later become the foundation of the United States government. After earning their independence, there was doubt of whether or not their new country would survive without the aid of Great Britain. The stakes and pressure to survive and prove everyone wrong was at an all time high …show more content…
Feeling like they had a lack of representation and power led the Southern States to secession, which later led to the Civil War. There has been a huge debate on whether the justification South Carolina seceding was about either slavery or states right. In the novel Apostles of Disunion by Charles B. Dew states that the question “can have an either/or answer in this instance”(pg 1) it all depends on the point of view. But today we can definitely determine that it was about slavery rights. Southern States wanted to maintain their control over slaves, in order to keep their main source of income. Failing to realize that “Slavery was a practice that deprived African-Americans of their God-given inalienable rights” (pg 6-7) South Carolina believed without slavery, their economy would collapse as well as everything they “worked” for. They would rather fight instead of surrendering and admitting defeat. For the reason being they knew and were afraid that "all of [their] property confiscated[, their] liberties taken from [them] ... [their] slaves stationed in every town with guns in their hands to make [them] do our masters bidding”. They didn’t want to take responsibilities for their actions and face the

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