HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fugitive Slaves In The United States, Free Soil Party, Fokker E.Ii
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North may have been pro slavery but did not want it to expand d. iii. This would make the southern economy fail: lincoln e. i. South took it as a threat that he did not want slavery to spread e. ii. South began to try to secede when he was inaugurated e. iii. Only a few slave states stayed loyal to the union e. iv. Pleaded with the south to not start a war, but it began anyway: the meaning and the purpose of the war began to change f. i. Enslaved men and women their actions began to push the war in different directions f. i. 1. Actions of these men and women changed the goals of the. The uniformed soldier stands on the side just watching and not doing. Contrabands anything else: northerners loved the term contraband because although they were not slaves, it reinvents them as a form of property. a. i. This is another form of racism: many union soldiers used contrabands as servants.
