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The white wanted to kill the slave’s hope of ever going home or ever being free and that is why they wanted to discourage them from the practices that made them hope to be free. The whites wanted the slave to belong to them forever and that is white the slave states were so much against the abolishment of slave trade during the civil war. The slave feared that the collective effort of preserving the African culture and religious ceremonies would sow the seeds of disobedience, unrest and perhaps even rebellion and the only way of killing the African religious ceremonies was to introduce convert them to Christianity.
The population of the African American population both free and slaves was large and the whites felt that the best way to limit their freedom would be to limit their religious ceremonies as they brought them together. Because of the racial prejudice and the ignorance about the sophisticated cultures and religion that the Africans had for which many of them were slaves, southern whites were convinced that the free blacks would be a threat to the white survival and especially if they were allowed to continue practicing their religious ceremonies. So, the southerner believed that the slavery was necessary as part of the race control.
The economic role that the slaves played was important. The white southerners did not believe that they could do the backbreaking labor that was required in the farms. The southerners were determined to maintain the slaves after the revolution and this began the fatal division between the free states and the slave states that led to the sectionalism and untimely to the civil war.
While the revolution of 1776-1783 created the American nations the civil war of 1861-1865 preserved the American nation from destruction and determined in a large measure the sort of a nation America would be. As James McPherson wrote in his book ordeal by fire: The civil war and the reconstruction, the war in one way or another reconstructed the America nation.
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