about slavery and how the civil war started

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…were not allowed to leave the plantation, If they did, they were punished very hard. Very often even families were split up at sales. Just imagine that your father, mother or brother would be sold and you would not be able to see them anymore. A horrible experience! As the northern states were against slavery and intended to abolish it, the South wanted to split from the North and that's why the civil war started.