Education is Changing

Public schools became a growing fad as America had a want for better schools to educate their children with. They were truly created for middle class. Though women attended school, they were taught how to sow and be good mothers, rather than learn things such as arithmetic. Women were taught how to become proper wives, while men were taught tools of trade. Men of higher class were taught how to progress in careers such as doctors or lawyers, while the poor were taught things of industrial manner. African Americans education was not furthered as it was illegal to do so in the south, and they were not allowed into the schools in the north. This progress helped select people, mostly the middle class and up. Poorer people rarely attended school, as it was not required and their help was needed on the family farm. Because not all children were educated, and they were not generally educated the same, but for specific areas, this reform was somewhat lacking. It was not a fair system, but at least education was expanding.

Slavery was truly only essential for the few large plantations. And even then they could substitute slaves with the poor "clay eaters" who could defiantly use the work. Slavery was a false dependent in the economy, despite the southerner's mind set. Truly the keeping of slaves was not based off of economic needs, but social insecurities of the whites. They needed to have inferiors, and a cheap source of labor was an additional plus. Some of the southerner's reasons for why they were superior were rather ridiculous. One of the most ridiculous reasons being that since whites have larger skulls than African Americans, they must be smarter. Not that the size of one's skull, or brain, rather, determines how smart someone is. The whites believed Africans to be animal like in nature, observing how they lived in their home country. Some even did the unthinkable of trying to justify slavery with religion; they translated "the curse of Ham" to mean that slavery was a decent liberty that they were granted by God.

Whites used faulty reasons to defend their use of slavery, which was not really necessary due to the condition of some of their fellow whites whom could have used the jobs themselves.
Truly, the South were cheap, morally deprived people. The abrupt ending of slavery after the civil war proves that slavery was not necessarily needed.