Author: Hinton Rowan Helper, a white rich man wrote the book “The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It”.
Purpose: He was trying to say that the south was not right in every aspect, and that they will need to change.
Prior Knowledge: Almost all white southerners were in favor of slavery and often criticized abolitionists.
Audience: All of the readers of the book, but specifically, the northerners due to how it showed that not all white southerners thought the same way about their lifestyle.
Reason: Helper wrote the book to show that slavery had many negative social, political, and economic effects that many southerners ignored.
The Main Idea: Slavery was responsible for the economic downfall of the south, and that slaves should be freed and sent back to Africa.
Significance: It energized the North because it showed that a white rich southerner could agree with their point of view. But overall, it did more to divide the country than unite it because there were very few southerners that held the same views as Helper.
Purpose: He was trying to say that the south was not right in every aspect, and that they will need to change.
Prior Knowledge: Almost all white southerners were in favor of slavery and often criticized abolitionists.
Audience: All of the readers of the book, but specifically, the northerners due to how it showed that not all white southerners thought the same way about their lifestyle.
Reason: Helper wrote the book to show that slavery had many negative social, political, and economic effects that many southerners ignored.
The Main Idea: Slavery was responsible for the economic downfall of the south, and that slaves should be freed and sent back to Africa.
Significance: It energized the North because it showed that a white rich southerner could agree with their point of view. But overall, it did more to divide the country than unite it because there were very few southerners that held the same views as Helper.