高中英语必修10Module 3 Slavery and the American Civil War-Background information .docVIP

Module 3 Slavery and the American Civil War Section 2 Background information About Slavery One issue, however, exacerbated the regional and economic differences between North and South: slavery. Resenting the large profits amassed by Northern businessmen from marketing the cotton crop, Southerners attributed the backwardness of their own section to Northern aggrandizement. Northerners, on the other hand, declared that slavery —— the peculiar institution, which the South regarded as essential to its economy —— was wholly responsible for the regions relative backwardness. 　　As far back as 1830,