Why did northeners and southeners disaggree over abolition?

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Omid Shariati · Answer 1 · 2019-12-24T09:29:18+0000

Most Southerners believed they were naturally better than African Americans and therefore had the right to "own" them, while many Northerners thought it was morally wrong, but some Northerners didn't want the competition of enslaved labor.

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