HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Free Soil Party, Millard Fillmore, Slave Narrative
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Since slaves grew the cotton: uncle tom"s cabin put human face on slavery, attack on southerners. Seemed to be firing the sentiment of anti-slavery: the fact that this novel garnered so much popularity worried the south. Usually before, the north was able to dismiss slave narratives but this particular novel garnered support of the north, so the south was slowly losing grip on the north"s support. Read about nullified missouri compromise: kansas tried to create a legislature via voting. 1856 election james buchanan (d); john freemont (r), millard fillmore (american. James buchanan was a northerner sympathetic to the south, nominated to appease the north, convince to stay. Republicans wanted to limit spread of slavery because of conflict with northern jobs: absorbed the liberty party (anti-slavery), free soil party, american party. American party still exists, who ran millard fillmore. The democrats are the only national party, so the result of this is two separate elections.
