The History Of Slavery: The American Civil War

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Slavery developped in the country. The invention of the Cotton Gin led to the need of more workers which means more slaves and a terrible tension between the North and the South. The disagreement over slavery issue led to a big conflict between the two sides known as The American Civil War in which it lasted from 1861 to 1865 when Abraham Lincoln came with the Emancipation Proclamation which gave the freedom to slaves and paved the way for the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery completely in the country. Slave Narratives are the accounts and the experiences of the former slaves describing the way they lived this crucial period. The genre became an essential element in creating controversies about slavery and freedom between black and