Why did members of the working poor oppose the Emancipation of slaves?

slaves were free labor, so the slave owners profited very heavily off of slaves because they didnt pay for their work. The freedom of slaves, would cost the plantation owners more money because they would now need to pay their employees. The working class people were also scared that the now free slaves would steal jobs away from them.

Explanation:

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explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n: