They thought that Lincoln's stand against it would bring more countries forward to ask for friendship and to become allies
His political opinion was that he would only stop slavery from spreading, not abolish it. His personal opinion was that slavery should be abolished and there was nothing worse.
In 1837 Lincoln took his first public stand on slavery when the Illinois legislature voted to condemn the activities of the abolition societies that wanted an immediate end to slavery by any means.
Lincoln did not like slavery. He could see the injustice of keeping people in involuntary servitude , buying and selling them like cattle. However, he also believed in constitutional law and legal precedent which protected the institution of slavery and was not an abolitionist who believed that slavery should abolished by violent action. He hoped to find a peaceful to end slavery, perhaps by having the government buy the slaves and send to some foreign country as free men.
the underground railroad influenced people stand up and fight slavery and escape from it
Of course she would! She was leading hundreds of slaves to freedom to north when you weren't supposed to escape Slavery!
popular sovereignty allows for the people to choose where they stand on the subject and Frederick believed that the people would vote for no slavery
They stood up for slavery because they thought that slavery was not right.
since the flag represents that slavery was illegal, the white people didn't have the ability to have a slave to help around
Slavery is as old as mankind, as soon as people had the ability to stand over others and make them do their work for them is when they started.
For women rights and slavery For women rights and slavery
American Anti Slavery Society
The early support of the know-nothings from all regions helped by the refusal to take a stand on slavery.