How did the divisions between abolitionists and supporters of slavery come to define American politics in the decades leading up to the Civil War? What one issue caused this conflict to arise again and again? How do George Fitzhugh’s arguments for slavery being better than liberty and equality (1854) and the Republican Party’s Platform (1860) illustrate the widening chasm between both sides leading to that conflict?
How did the divisions between abolitionists and supporters of slavery come to define American politics in the
decades leading up to the Civil War? What one issue caused this conflict to arise again and again? How do George Fitzhugh’s arguments for slavery being better than liberty and equality (1854) and the Republican Party’s Platform (1860) illustrate the widening chasm between both sides leading to that conflict?