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Why were some northerners against abolition?

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Answer: economic of the north and south would suffer

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Some Northerners shared similar views with Southern Slave owners. In many cases they saw Africans as less than human and needed to be enslaved for their own protection and well being. Either way these sentiments were rare in Northern America.
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