Ali Jackson Jackson 1 Janurary 17, 2013 Ferguson Journal 2 Race Begs for Equality. While economic, cultural, and political differences between the North and South all played a role in the Civil War, the underlying cause was slavery. The increasingly violent clashes between North and South over the issue of slavery, such as the bloody altercation at Harpers Ferry, proved that a compromise between the two sides could not be reached.The raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, organized by militant…
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