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Most Northerner didn't care for slavery. That is not to say they didn't want it abolished, it just did not affect their life.
Northerners favored it because it banned slavery in the land obtained from Mexico, aka the Mexican Cession, thus making another step toward abolishing slavery. They supported this so much, that antislavery northerners created a new party, known as the Free- Soil Party, which supported the Wilmot Proviso. Southerners, however, opposed it, and wanted more land that allows slavery.
The loss of slavery would threaten the southern economy
It moved toward the West
They wanted it abolished.
Abolitionists
Abolitionists
Most Northerner didn't care for slavery. That is not to say they didn't want it abolished, it just did not affect their life.
Some states passed personal liberty laws for runaway slaves.
people started to figure out slavery was not right
Northerners favored it because it banned slavery in the land obtained from Mexico, aka the Mexican Cession, thus making another step toward abolishing slavery. They supported this so much, that antislavery northerners created a new party, known as the Free- Soil Party, which supported the Wilmot Proviso. Southerners, however, opposed it, and wanted more land that allows slavery.
That it was wrong and they had an obligation to change it
One publication that had a significant impact on northern attitudes towards slavery was Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." It depicted the horrors of slavery and helped galvanize anti-slavery sentiment in the North leading up to the Civil War.
They felt they had a moral obligation to make change.
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if they were black it was ok