The Debate over Slavery
Recently the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, which didn’t make us Northerners very happy. The Fugitive Slave Act is supposed to prevent us anti-slavery folk from helping a runaway slave. The Southerners are elated at this idea. This Act means they will either get their slaves back, or punish anti-slavery groups. Immediately after the Act was passed, people were being arrested. Obviously, this continues to conform people to not think for themselves which is exactly what the government wants.
The Act affects African Americans, because few of them have actually earned their freedom. Former slaves in the North flee to Canada in fear of being found out. In court, commissioners are being paid more to send former slaves back to the South to go back into slavery than they are to keep them free. …show more content…
The parties were Republican, North Democrat, South Democrat, and Constitutional Union. The men running were Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. Lincoln campaigned in all our Northern, free states and no others. He was against the spread of slavery, and promised not to abolish slavery where it already existed. Lincoln ended up winning all the North states and not a single South state, and winning the overall election. This angered Southerners because it showed how little power they had. Those uncultured weaklings.
The idea of slavery not spreading and eventually dying out angered Southerners. They didn’t trust Lincoln when he said he wouldn’t abolish slavery. Therefore, they couldn’t stay in his government anymore. Lincoln stated that no state can leave the union if they just want to. They can only do so by revolution. Almost all of the Southern states are seceding to make up “The Confederate States of America”. They are continuing to form a government. Lincoln is keeping property of the seceding states in hope they will rejoin the United
Recently the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, which didn’t make us Northerners very happy. The Fugitive Slave Act is supposed to prevent us anti-slavery folk from helping a runaway slave. The Southerners are elated at this idea. This Act means they will either get their slaves back, or punish anti-slavery groups. Immediately after the Act was passed, people were being arrested. Obviously, this continues to conform people to not think for themselves which is exactly what the government wants.
The Act affects African Americans, because few of them have actually earned their freedom. Former slaves in the North flee to Canada in fear of being found out. In court, commissioners are being paid more to send former slaves back to the South to go back into slavery than they are to keep them free. …show more content…
The parties were Republican, North Democrat, South Democrat, and Constitutional Union. The men running were Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. Lincoln campaigned in all our Northern, free states and no others. He was against the spread of slavery, and promised not to abolish slavery where it already existed. Lincoln ended up winning all the North states and not a single South state, and winning the overall election. This angered Southerners because it showed how little power they had. Those uncultured weaklings.
The idea of slavery not spreading and eventually dying out angered Southerners. They didn’t trust Lincoln when he said he wouldn’t abolish slavery. Therefore, they couldn’t stay in his government anymore. Lincoln stated that no state can leave the union if they just want to. They can only do so by revolution. Almost all of the Southern states are seceding to make up “The Confederate States of America”. They are continuing to form a government. Lincoln is keeping property of the seceding states in hope they will rejoin the United