What Is Arthur Hermantle's Role In The Civil War

For several decades slavery ran ramped in the United States, and by the 1850s-1860s there were different opinions about whether to keep it, abolish it, or contain it where it is. Most understand that the south was pro-slavery, their further intentions were to expand into the new territories the US had purchased from Mexico and from the Louisiana Purchase. Then, there was a small minority group in the north that wished to abolish slavery from the entire US, and this group was disliked by both northerners and southerners. The majority of the north, however, didn’t mind keeping slavery in the south where it already existed, but they did not want it to expand into the new states Congress was carving out of the purchased territories. Each of this groups disliked one

We know that the Civil War was about slavery- one hundred percent, however the south would deny that it had anything to do with it. Freemantle’s character was a way for Shaara to show how England and most of Europe saw the United States. Additionally, Freemantle was fighting for the south even though most of Europe had ridden slavery from their countries, the south was more like England than the north was. For instance, the south’s class system was still very much like that of England with an aristocracy, and another reason why England liked the south more than the north was because they loved Lee because he was a “gentleman”. Moreover, England and Europe knew that the United States’ Civil War was about slavery despite the south’s denial; in the book Freemantle asked southerns if the war about slavery and they said no, so Freemantle continued and asked what it was about and they replied, “rats”. All in all, Freemantle fought against the north because as we know he is the symbol of England and Europe, and they connect more with the southerner’s way of