Research Question: Why did it take a long to free slaves, why was slavery supported Thesis Statement: The reason why slavery was supported is because that it made the owners an enormous amount of money, but when it came to freeing them, it could only be done by war because they did not agree to free them but there were other ways that did not require violence like they could have started a business of Slave free so when they bought them they would let them go, Action Library. If the Slaves succeeded in rebelling against the slave owner’s others could have been encouraged to change the order of class.