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After the Civil War, black men were given the right to vote, but their past treatment as soulless creatures by the white society left a mark that it still visible in the black community to this day. Women, although they were not given the right to vote in the U.S. until more than half a century later were not affected like the ex-slave of the black community were because they saw themselves as a valuable part of their society, and they weren’t ostracized and looked down on as less then human. Women felt they have a purpose and a degree of respect in society as soulmates of the white men. Blacks weren’t seen as having no individual purpose, their purpose at that time, being only what white society “gave” them.
The North and South were divided on the surface by religious morality differences. At some point in time, however, the justification for slavery which had had a low level of interest, vanished. A religious movement grew up and took hold in the North but not in the South despite the fact that the people in both the North and South came from essentially the same moral place. Question becomes how did this acceptable behavior one day become unacceptable and next? When and why does the shift occur and was there much more behind the moral justification for slavery than religious beliefs; for example, economics. Was that strictly religious beliefs that changed or did geography and innovation play a part. The slavery in the South was predominantly of the black population, but in the North, at the time of the industrial revolution, there was a similar type of slavery of women and children in factories. The white people in the North were “free” and considered human beings with souls, while in the Southern black population, the slaves were considered ¾ of the person, which was justification for conserving them as soulless and with a tendency toward being evil. Ostracizing people from the community leaves them with no hope, and no reason to care.
Morality may have been used to justify the economic conflict that led to the Civil War, but the underlying causes and the justifications for continuing slavery of both the black population and white women and children was bound more tightly to economics than to morality.