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It set up an urgent demand for more slaves. These could not be imported any more, so they had to be bred at home, and sold at slave-auctions, which offended Northern sensibilities.

It also obliged Southern leaders to rationalise slavery as a prime necessity, and when the debate heated-up through the 1850's, they put pressure on church ministers to preach that slavery was a perfect God-given arrangement of master and man.

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