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They regarded them rather as we might regard the Green lobby - a small but vocal group with a lot of influence, and claiming the moral high ground.

Most Northerners were not passionately anti-slavery, though the publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' brought many new recruits to the cause of Abolitionism.

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not spark-off the rush of Abolitionist fervour that he hoped for.

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