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it increased tentions over the issue of slavery across the united states
"Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!"
Congress attempted to stop discussion on the slavery issue after they were flooded by over 100,000 petitions urging the abolition of slavery in the 1830's. In 1836, they passed a resolution that banned the discussion of these petitions and enforced the ban in 1839, 1841 and 1843. However, John Quincy Adams, who believed this was unfair, came up with creative methods of bringing the debate up on the floor anyway.
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it increased tentions over the issue of slavery across the united states
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If it had united the entire nation against slavery, there would have been no Civil War.
Some northerners came to admire him for trying to end slavery. :)
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"Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!"
Some northerners came to admire him for trying to end slavery. - Novanet
Some northerners came to admire him for trying to end slavery. - Novanet
All provoked increased debate over slavery
Slavery was a debate because prior to the musings of the natural rights philosophers (John Locke, Hobbes...) people did not believe it was morally wrong to own another human being. But after people began questioning their social status, and writers began to explore the concept of equality...slavery began to be questioned as well.
God's Little Angry White Man because he thought he was chosen by god to end slavery.