Paragraph 1:
- If new states could not be slave states = only a matter of time before the South’s clout in Congress would fade = abolitionists would be ascendant = and the South’s “peculiar institution” – the right to own human beings as property – would be in peril.
- Abraham Lincoln's election as president = opposition to the expansion of slavery into the territories; Southern politicians were clear about that.
- South of 1860
- 4 million enslaved human beings lived in the south, and they touched every aspect of the region’s social, political, and economic life.
- Slaves did not just work on plantations. In cities such as Charleston, they cleaned the streets, toiled as bricklayers, carpenters, blacksmiths, bakers, and laborers. They worked as dockhands and stevedores, grew and sold produce, purchased goods and carted them back to their masters’ homes where they cooked the meals, cleaned, raised the children, and tended to the daily chores.
- “Charleston looks more like a Negro country than a country settled by white people,” a visitor remarked.
- Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850
- As Southerners became increasingly isolated, they reacted by becoming more strident in defending slavery. P2
- Controlling the slave population was a matter of concern for all Whites, whether they owned slaves or not.
- comitted to preventing rebellion
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