HIST 370 Lecture 1: HIST 370 1:19:17
10 Mar 2017
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A house divided? the dynamics of sectionalism to 1848. Text: rst draft, jefferson complained about king for starting slavery and keeping it open. didn"t make the nal draft. didn"t want to sign complaint against king. Mason dixon line- maryland and pennsylvania. split free states and slave states. Gradual emancipation build starting in 1780. children born to slave mothers after july. 4th, 1804 would be granted freedom, but someone had to raise them (new jersey concluded, the owners should get something for raising them, so boys at 25, girls at. 21 would be granted freedom) became paupers, and had to become indentured servants. By the 13th amendment- the last slaves were emancipated in new jersey. There is no real clean north/south decision/event that ended slavery. How controversial was slavery and how polarized along sectional lines was the nation in the revolutionary and early national period: articles of confederation already had this precedent of emancipation before the.
