the abolitionists
For the most part, the national debate on slavery was not whether to abolish it. Most Americans, especially in the North, did not want slavery to spread to the western frontiers.
When the Whig Part dissolved after the the Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854, out of it came two parties, One was the Republican Party. Many were called radical Republicans because aside from hating slavery, the regarded Catholicism as the two main threats to freedom in the Republic. Abraham Lincoln had been a Whig. That party did its best to keep the bitterness between the North & South down to a non combative level.
Slavery has been around for thousands of years and is still part of society today. In ancient times slaves were the men who became prisoners after loosing a war. Women and children were taken as slaves in raids on villages. Slavery was a accepted part of life for thousands of years, but in the United States abolishing slavery became a movement.
"Slavery" is a noun.
Some slaves fished when they had free time, but fishing industry is not part of slavery.
John Brown came to the Kansas Territory to fight slavery. In May 1856 John Brown led a group that killed several proslavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek.
The excitement of being part of a new independent nation, defending it against the invader, and generally having a darn good fight. Slavery wasn't in it.
Pro-slavery. He was President of the Confederate States of America.
They were not "intoxicated" by liberty and slavery was a part of life. It was an acceptable part of society and had been for thousands of years. Even, today slavery still exists.
The North and the West for the most part were anti-slavery.
because it was a part of abolishing slavery
Slavery was part of Texas culture before it entered the Union.