HISTORY 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Emancipation Proclamation, Preston Brooks

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Slavery was indeed the heart of the issues of the civil war for the first half. South agriculture interests: constitutional issues nullification, state rights (the right to keep slaves and the right to expand slavery, political issues break down in political issues between the north and south. Slavery laid at the heart of the political issues: fugitive slave law 1850. Part of the compromise of 1850 (included abolition of slavery in d. c and california would come in as a free state). Many northerners never went to the south, had very little connection with slavery. Slave law brought northerners into the slave trade because now they were required to help capture slaves. Federal marshals were used as the enforcement wing for fugitive slave laws. Forced citizens to help marshals to capture runaways. Charles summer 1856 senator of ma, delivered a two day speech about the evils on slavery, denounced senator from sc andrew butler.

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