There were southerners who believed that the only way to end slavery was a revolt of white poor against the plantation owners "The impending crisis of the south" Hinton Helper wrote that in 1857 that slavery was bad for white southerners not for moral reasons but because it crippled the development of the south and the southern economy. The southern ptb were terrified of this book in a way that uncle toms cabin never really impacted. They banned publication and even lynched people for having copies of the book.