The slavery he witnessed at the Main plantation upset George, and his comments angered his friend, Orry. This scene is very important because it showd that all enslaved people did not treat each other well, especially in the case of house slaves and field hands. This enslaved man ruined a party full of slaveowners, and he was severely beaten. In another scene, an enslaved carriage driver for a cruel slave owner got an “upset” slave drunk. When his father died, he fired the overseer. Orry was stunned to see that their enslaved property (he called them property) were now whipped and treated badly. After returning from West Point, Orry found out his father had hired a cruel overseer. The thoughts about slavery became a problem between George and Orry, especially after visiting each other’s homes. This series joins my favorite movies of the Civil War:Īs I reviewed portions of the North and South, I looked at those conflicts again, foremost among them, slavery. The conflicts of the United States are dramatically displayed, slavery in the South, industrial revolution in the North, the politics of war, states’ rights versus central government, and profiteering. During the period before the Civil War, they faced struggles in their friendship, mirror conflicts in the nation. The two main characters-Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania-became best friends and remained best friends through the Mexican American War.
Although they are a romantic adaptation of historical fiction of the Civil War following two West Point cadets, it is a very good representation of the causes of the war. John Jakes’s North and South Books I and II became one of my favorite Civil War miniseries.
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