Slavery in the southern states

    • [DOC File]The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

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      Earlier southern criticism of slavery disappeared, and proslavey whites increasingly defended slavery as a positive good that actually benefited the slaves. In defending slavery, the South turned its back not only on many of the liberal political and social ideas gaining strength in the North, but on most of progressive Western civilization.

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    • [DOC File]Events Leading to Southern Secession

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      The final straw for the South was when Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. Lincoln wanted to keep the Union together and to end the spread of slavery into the new states. Southerners worried that Lincoln would not only try to end slavery in the west but also in Southern states.

      states where slavery was legal


    • [DOC File]Slavery Grievance (ORIGINAL)

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      Slavery. . . . hung over the Philadelphia Convention, threatening to divide northern and southern delegates. . . . Even though slavery existed by law in some of the northern states in 1787, the sentiment there favored its end.

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    • [DOC File]Missouri Compromise - Prohibited slavery above the 36th ...

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      The Southern armies defended Richmond The Emancipation Proclamation . was an order issued by President Lincoln to free the slaves in all the states that had left the union. It did not free the slaves that were living in the Union and were still loyal to the United States. Since the Confederate states did not did not obey his order.

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    • [DOC File]Slavery: Then and Now

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      While colonialism was a factor in the decline of slavery, the creation of the United States, the first modern constitutional democracy, helped to preserve slavery in North America. In the 1770s, the Southern colonists foresaw that Britain would eventually abolish slavery in its Empire.

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    • [DOC File]Slavery - History

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      The secession of the Southern states (in chronological order, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina) in 1860–61 and the outbreak of the Civil War were the result of decades of tension over the issue of slavery.

      northern states that had slaves


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