Because whites were owning blacks as ''slaves'' and that's not right. People are people no matter what color they are.
yes that is true blacks, whites, what ever color you are everyone is the same, sometimes the whites think that they own but they don't these lands of the United States of America use to be mexicos and the native Americans so there the ones who don't own get yo facts straight!!
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Blacks continued to run away
Because he was a White abolitionist leading blacks and whites in rebellion, trying to free slaves! His actions terrified Southerners as they thought he was the start of more rebellion and strife. Northerners, in turn, glorified him for his actions against the moral evils of slavery and sang the song 'John Browns Body' as they marched into battle
states were fighting over slavery.
They were fighting an offensive war and they were invading a large geographic area.
Slavery began in Virginia and Maryland on tobacco farms. Slavery became more and more important as farms became bigger. That divided the Southern whites into two classes.