Clashing opinions on national issues led to the Civil War, and opinions were not necessarily determined by geography. In the North there were men and women who supported the South and slavery and those who opposed going to war to force the seceding states back into the Union. These differences in ideology began in the early 1800s with the emergence of the Abolition movement. At that time the men and women in Greenwich who worked for the complete and immediate emancipation of the slaves found themselves in the minority. One Connecticut abolitionist referred to Fairfield County as "a hard county, the Georgia of Connecticut" due to its staunch support of southern slavery. One probable reason for the area's hostility to the war was its commercial connections to the South.