slaves were farmers.
Most white Americans saw slavery as mainly a local issue
slavery became an issue many years before the civil war.
The Whigs and Democrats avoided and evaded the issue of slavery in the election of 1848 by splitting down the middle on who was for and who was against slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the South wanted to keep slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the North wanted to abolish slavery.
The major issue in the era of the democrats between 1800-1860 was slavery and high tariffs.
It is NOT the "civil war". Slavery was a very minor issue at the start of the war.
Because farmers needed slaves to pick cotton, Dumb a$$, did you mean Framers?
America had to deal with slavery and the confederate states. The Confederate States believed that slavery was good for algriculture. But it was so wrong......
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves
The Constitutional Convention dealt with slavery issue in a conclusive manner. The addressed the rights of the slaves and their right to own property among other contentious issues.
Economic reason the farmers in the Constitution avoided the slavery question
Senator Stephen A. Douglas believed that the only way to democratically deal with the issue of slavery was by voting. This was called popular sovereignty and applied to his Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1854.
No it was not an issue their!
The issue of expansion of slavery was its expansion and growth into Western territories.
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue. In the North, slavery was proving to be unprofitable in the North and was dying out by the end of the American Revolution, but in the South white Southerners were increasingly more defensive of slavery.
The South looked at slavery as an economic issue. The North viewed slavery as a moral issue. In the North, slavery was proving to be unprofitable in the North and was dying out by the end of the American Revolution, but in the South white Southerners were increasingly more defensive of slavery.